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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

Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Change Life Positive
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men
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.
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Death might Years
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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Expression Style Thinking
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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Remuneration Treasure Years
How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Anxiety Detail Teacher
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Catholic Love Soul
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Animal Religious Vegetarian
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Comprehensive Infinite Reason Spiritual
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Exercise Friends Love Men
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Artist Better Lions
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Evil Excess Substance
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Almighty Evolution Inconsistent Theory
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Certainty Creeps Soar
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

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.

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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.

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