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

John Henry Newman

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

Break Cost Sacrifice Through
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Enquiry Modesty Religious
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Catholic Heaven Part
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Angel Condolences Sympathy
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

Days Holy Jesus Names
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Men Nature Science
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men
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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Doe Guilt Responsibility
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Catholic Love Soul
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
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Life Pain Success
Calculation never made a hero.
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Calculation Hero Made
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Garden Peace Spiritual
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Remuneration Treasure Years

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

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