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• Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

  John Henry Newman

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.31, Ignatius Press

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• Time hath a taming hand.

  John Henry Newman

  Hands, Taming

  John Henry Newman (1853). “Verses on Religious Subjects”, p.40

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• O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us still.... Thou art the heart of the Most High made man.... Thy Sacred Heart is the instrument and organ of Thy love. It did beat for us. It yearned for us. It ached for our salvation. It was on fire through zeal, that the glory of God might be manifested in and by us.... In worshipping thee I worship my incarnate God, my Emmanuel

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  Jesus, Art, Men

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• Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

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  Evil, Excess, Substance

  John Henry Newman, Dave Armstrong (2012). “The Quotable Newman: A Definitive Guide to His Central Thoughts and Ideas”, p.151, Sophia Institute Press

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• Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

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  Evil, Cures

  John Henry Newman (1871). “Essays: Critical and historical”, p.365

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• You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

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  Life, Pain, Mind

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• I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

  John Henry Newman

  Death, Years, Might

  John Henry Newman, Ian Turnbull Ker, Thomas Gornall, Gerard Tracey, Francis J. McGrath (1961). “Letters and Diaries: The Vatican Council, June 1870-Dec. 1871”

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• If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.

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  Men, Views, Giving

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• Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

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  Responsibility, Guilt, Doe

  John Henry Newman (1850). “Lectures of certain difficulties felt by anglicans in submitting to the Catholic Church”, p.236

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• True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

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  Spring, Roots, Intellectual

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.165, Aeterna Press

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• By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

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  Spiritual, Peace, Garden

  John Henry Newman (2002). “Prayers, Verses, and Devotions”, p.127, Ignatius Press

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• When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

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  Mean, Men, Hopeless

  'Faith and Reason, contrasted as Habits of Mind' (Epiphany, 1839), in 'Oxford University Sermons' (1843) no. 10

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• How can we feel our need of His help, or our dependence on Him, or our debt to Him, or the nature of His gift to us, unless we know ourselves.... This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church.... They have never had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.

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  Love Is, Age, Church

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• Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

  John Henry Newman

  Littles, Reason, Made

  John Henry Newman, James Tolhurst (1849). “Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations”, p.188, Gracewing Publishing

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• Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

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  Catholic, Soul, And Love

  John Henry Newman, James Tolhurst (1849). “Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations”, p.63, Gracewing Publishing

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• Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

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  Morning, Men, Doe

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• It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

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  Believe, Men, Arguing

  'The Usurpations of Reason' (1831), in 'Oxford University Sermons' (1843) no. 4

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• The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

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  Exercise, Men, Friend Love

  John Henry Newman (2012). “John Henry Newman: Spiritual Writings”, p.41, Orbis Books

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• A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

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  Matter, Reason, Intellect

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• A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

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  Memories, Math, Mind

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• It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

  John Henry Newman

  Reflection, Decision, Want

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• After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

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  Struggle, Fighting, White

  John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.1416, Ignatius Press

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• Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.

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  Depth, Height, Way

  'The Dream of Gerontius' (1865)

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• The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.

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  Spiritual, Infinite, Reason

  John Henry Newman (1876). “Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations”, p.319

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• Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith only we know our position in the world, our circumstances, our rights and privileges, our fortunes, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our age, our mortality. Why should Religion be an exception?

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  Faith, Brother, Rights

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