John Henry Newman - Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864)

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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

John Henry Newman

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.

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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

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It would be a gain to the country were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion than at present it shows itself to be.

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The all-corroding, all-dissolving scepticism of the intellect in religious enquiries.

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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.

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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…He has attempted (as I may call it) to poison the wells.

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