“I wish it were possible for words to put down those
indefinite, vague, and withal subtle feelings which quite pierce the soul and
make it sick…. What a veil
and curtain this world of sense is. Beautiful, but still a veil.”—Blessed John Henry Newman, letter to his sister Jemima, May 10, 1828, in Letters and Correspondence of John Henry
Newman During His Life in the English Church, Vol. 1, edited by Anne Mozley
(1898)
(Portrait of Cardinal Newman by Sir John
Everett Millais, in the National Portrait Gallery in London.)
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