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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

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

Drink Firsts Pope
Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Angel Beautiful Light
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Arguing Believe Men
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Guide Judging Men Party
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
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Action Done Practice
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Done Law War
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dream Ideas Religion
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Mother Religious Today
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Attitude Friends Inspirational
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Fighting Shame Sin
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
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Catholic Heaven Part
Man is emphatically self-made.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Made Men Self
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Faith Hazards Sacrifice
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

Iron Teacher Winter

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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