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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

John Henry Newman

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dogma Fall Men
Man is emphatically self-made.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Made Men Self
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Drink Firsts Pope
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Men Perspective
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
May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Long Support
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Inspire Religion
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
Growth is the only evidence of life.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Life Positive
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

God Love Voice
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Arguing Believe Men
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
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Arguments People Sympathies
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
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Mother Religious Today
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Men Nature Science

You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

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