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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

John Henry Newman

Believe, Conviction, Results

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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

John Henry Newman

Depth, Sin, Havens

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Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.

John Henry Newman

Love, Self, Roots

John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.39, Ignatius Press

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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

John Henry Newman

Sensible

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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

John Henry Newman

Firsts, Pope, Toasts

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It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

John Henry Newman

Mutual Respect, Lasting, Mutual

John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.194, Ignatius Press

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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

John Henry Newman

Teacher, Winter, Iron

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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

John Henry Newman

Sacrifice, Break Through, Cost

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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

John Henry Newman

Dark, Light, Light And Dark

"Lead, Kindly Light" l. 1 (1834)

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Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

John Henry Newman

Animal, Humanity, Done

"Parochial and Plain Sermons". Book by John Henry Newman, 1868.

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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

John Henry Newman

Inspirational, Friends, Attitude

Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.170, Aeterna Press

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The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

John Henry Newman

Heart, Mean, Men

John Henry Newman, Gerard Tracey (1999). “The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Tract 90 and the Jerusalem Bishopric, January 1841-April 1842”, p.555, Oxford University Press

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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

John Henry Newman

Wish

Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2015). “Discussions and Arguments”, p.136, Aeterna Press

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God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.

John Henry Newman

Spiritual, Sorrow, Doe

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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

John Henry Newman

People, Argument

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It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

John Henry Newman

Dream, Sacrifice, Blessing

John Henry Newman (1874). “Sermons Preached on Various Occasions”, p.178

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A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet sweetly; it was the Blessed Sacrament - it was the Lord Incarnate who was on the altar, who had come to visit and bless his people. It was the Great Presence, which makes a Catholic Church different from every other place in the world; which makes it, as no other place can be - holy.

John Henry Newman

Blessed, Mean, Clouds

John Henry Newman, Trevor Lipscombe (2012). “Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert”, p.351, Ignatius Press

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Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He is hidden in the brightness of the radiance which issues from the everlasting throne. He is in the very abyss of peace, where there is no voice of tumult or distress, but a deep stillness--stillness, that greatest and most awful of all goods which we can fancy; that most perfect of joys, the utter profound, ineffable tranquillity of the Divine Essence. He has entered into His rest. That is our home; here we are on a pilgrimage, and Christ calls us to His many mansions which He has prepared.

John Henry Newman

Home, Voice, Issues

Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, Aeterna Press

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Growth is the only evidence of life.

John Henry Newman

Life, Change, Positive

John Henry Newman (2016). “Apologia pro Vita Sua”, p.67, John Henry Newman

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God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.

John Henry Newman

Mean, Men, Names

John Henry Newman (1900). “The Works of Cardinal Newman”

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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

John Henry Newman

Jesus, Holy Days, Names

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I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

John Henry Newman

Men, Giving, Arrogant

John Henry Newman (2000). “Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England: Addressed to the Brothers of the Oratory in the Summer of 1851”, p.390, Gracewing Publishing

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Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

John Henry Newman

Fighting, Doe, Chance

John Henry Newman (1843). “Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford”, p.212

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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

John Henry Newman

Religious, Animal, Vegetarian

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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Henry Newman

Inspirational, Change, Wish

John Henry Newman (1844). “Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford”, p.225, Aeterna Press

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Born: February 21, 1801
Died: August 11, 1890
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