Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them…

John Henry Newman
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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 (1844). Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford, p.225, Aeterna Press
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