Saint John Henry Newman

1:Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

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1:O loving wisdom of our God ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

2:Calculation never made a hero. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

3:Man is emphatically self-made. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

4:Time hath a taming hand. ~ Saint Saint John Henry Newman,

5:Growth is the only evidence of life. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

6:From shadows and symbols into the truth. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

7:Go down again - I dwell among the people. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

8:Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

9:I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

10:Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

11:Great things are done by devotion to one idea. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

12:I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

13:To the irreligious person heaven would be hell. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

14:Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

15:Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

16:Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

17:To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

18:Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

19:It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

20:To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

21:To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

22:To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

23:The present is a text, and the past its interpretation. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

24:All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

25:I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

26:Kolik malých štěstí jsem ztratil hledáním velkého štěstí. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

27:Judaism, again, was rejected when it rejected the Messiah. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

28:Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

29:Take me away, and in the lowest deep
There let me be... ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

30:Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

31:Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

32:The world is content with setting right the surface of things. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

33:Divine Wisdom speaks not to the world, but to her own children. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

34:Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

35:Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

36:When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

37:It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

38:Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

39:Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

40:To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

41:If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

42:To live is to change, and to change often is to become more perfect. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

43:Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

44:Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

45:Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

46:Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

47:The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

48:The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

49:Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

50:It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

51:To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

52:Here below to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

53:We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

54:Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

55:We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

56:How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin? ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

57:Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

58:It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

59:Non temere che la vita giunga a una fine, temi piuttosto che non abbia mai inizio. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

60:Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

61:Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

62:Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

63:It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

64:And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

65:A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

66:Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

67:The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

68:We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

69:The heart is a secret with its Maker; no one on earth can hope to get at it or to touch it. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

70:Doing is at a far greater distance from intending to do than you at first sight imagine. Join ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

71:I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

72:A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

73:Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

74:Mary became the window of heaven, for God through her poured the True Light upon the world; the ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

75:I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

76:Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

77:Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

78:Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

79:By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

80:A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

81:A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

82:A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

83:Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

84:If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

85:Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

86:The minds of young people are pliable and elastic, and easily accommodate themselves to any one they fall in with. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

87:Its home is in the world; and to know what it is, we must seek it in the world, and hear the world's witness of it. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

88:It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

89:I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

90:Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

91:Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

92:Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

93:When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

94:Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

95:Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

96:Doctrine without its correspondent principle remains barren, if not lifeless, of which the Greek Church seems an instance; or ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

97:You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

98:En un mundo superior puede ser de otra manera, pero aquí abajo, vivir es cambiar y ser perfecto es haber cambiado muchas veces. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

99:I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

100:Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

101:Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

102:Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

103:To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

104:Nothing is more common in an age like this, when books abound, than to fancy that the gratification of a love of reading is real study. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

105:Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

106: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. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

107:God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

108:Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

109:With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

110:Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

111: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. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

112:To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

113: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. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

114:as Blessed Saint John Henry Newman put it, “our duty as Christians lies in this, in making ventures for eternal life without the absolute certainty of success. ~ Charles J Chaput,

115:Ihre Geheimnisse sind nicht anderes als die in menschliche Sprache gekleideten Formeln von Wahrheiten, die der menschliche Geist nicht zu erfassen vermag ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

116:Of all points of faith, the being of a God is, to my own apprehension, encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

117: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. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

118:God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

119:Lebendige Bewegungen gehen nicht von Komitees aus und große Ideen werden nicht durch einen Briefwechsel ausgearbeitet, selbst wenn das Porto noch so günstig ist. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

120:It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

121:What is more likely, considering our perverse nature, than that we should neglect the duties, while we wish to retain the privileges of our Christian profession? Our ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

122:It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples’ feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

123:In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

124: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. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

125: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. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

126:On the whole, all parties will agree that, of all existing systems, the present communion of Rome is the nearest approximation in fact to the Church of the Fathers, possible ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

127: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. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

128: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. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

129:Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

130:There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

131:Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

132:The refutation and remedy of errors cannot precede their rise; and thus the fact of false developments or corruptions involves the correspondent manifestation of true ones. Moreover, ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

133:Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

134:Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

135:True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

136:If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflexion of its Creator. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

137:Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

138: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. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

139:Saint John Henry Newman views the visible world as a veil “so that all that exists or happens visibly, conceals and yet suggests, and above all serves, a greater system of persons, facts and events beyond itself.”3 ~ Henri J M Nouwen,

140:Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

141:All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

142:When the Apostles were taken away, Christianity did not at once break into portions; yet separate localities might begin to be the scene of internal dissensions, and a local arbiter in consequence would be wanted. Christians ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

143: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. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

144:Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

145: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. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

146:Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God . . . there is something so dreadful, so satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.” —Cardinal Saint John Henry Newman ~ Will Tuttle,

147: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. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

148:Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

149:Saint John Henry Newman, poet and priest, wrote that “time is not a common property; / But what is long is short, and swift is slow/And near is distant, as received and grasped / By this mind and by that, / And every one is standard of his own chronology. ~ James Gleick,

150:Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more. It brings the mind into form,—for the mind is like the body. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

151:Boys do not fully know what is good and what is evil; they do wrong things at first almost innocently. Novelty hides vice from them; there is no one to warn them or give them rules; and they become slaves of sin, while they are learning what sin is. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

152:A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

153:And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

154:But one aspect of Revelation must not be allowed to exclude or to obscure another; and Christianity is dogmatical, devotional, practical all at once; it is esoteric and exoteric; it is indulgent and strict; it is light and dark; it is love, and it is fear. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

155: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. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

156:What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ? ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

157:It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

158:God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

159:Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes,
The art of syren choirs;
Hush the seductive voice that floats
Across the trembling wires.

Music's ethereal power was given
Not to dissolve our clay,
But draw Promethean beams from heaven
To purge the dross away. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

160:Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

161:Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

162:Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith only we know our position in the world, our circumstances, our rights and privileges, our fortunes, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our age, our mortality. Why should Religion be an exception? ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

163:Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

164:A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

165:Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of Saint John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

166:I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

167:Wine is good in itself, but not for a man in a fever. If our souls were in perfect health, riches and authority, and strong powers of mind, would be very suitable to us: but they are weak and diseased, and require so great a grace of God to bear these advantages well, that we may be well content to be without them. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

168:After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

169:Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

170:La llamaron Libertad, y literalmente la adoraron como a una divinidad. Parecería increíble que aquellos mismos hombres que se desembarazaron de toda religión terminasen adorando, en son de burla o por superstición, una nueva e insensata deidad de su invención, si no fuese porque los sucesos son tan recientes y notorios. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

171:Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

172:God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

173:I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

174:The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

175:It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

176:A true development, then, may be described as one which is conservative of the course of antecedent developments being really those antecedents and something besides them: it is an addition which illustrates, not obscures, corroborates, not corrects, the body of thought from which it proceeds; and this is its characteristic as contrasted with a corruption. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

177:Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

178:La llamaron Libertad, y literalmente la adoraron como a una divinidad. Parecería increíble que aquellos mismos hombres que se desembarazaron de toda religión terminasen adorando, en son de burla o por superstición, una nueva e insensata deidad de su invención, si no fuese porque los sucesos son tan recientes y notorios. Luego de abjurar de nuestro Señor y Salvador, ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

179:How can we feel our need of His help, or our dependence on Him, or our debt to Him, or the nature of His gift to us, unless we know ourselves.... This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church.... They have never had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

180:There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

181:The world then is the enemy of our souls; first, because, however innocent its pleasures, and praiseworthy its pursuits may be, they are likely to engross us, unless we are on our guard: and secondly, because in all its best pleasures, and noblest pursuits, the seeds of sin have been sown; an enemy hath done this; so that it is most difficult to enjoy the good without partaking of the evil also. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

182:A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet sweetly; it was the Blessed Sacrament - it was the Lord Incarnate who was on the altar, who had come to visit and bless his people. It was the Great Presence, which makes a Catholic Church different from every other place in the world; which makes it, as no other place can be - holy. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

183:The nature of the case and the history of philosophy combine to recommend to us this division of intellectual labour between Academies and Universities. To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person. He, too, who spends his day in dispensing his existing knowledge to all comers is unlikely to have either leisure or energy to acquire new. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

184:O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us still.... Thou art the heart of the Most High made man.... Thy Sacred Heart is the instrument and organ of Thy love. It did beat for us. It yearned for us. It ached for our salvation. It was on fire through zeal, that the glory of God might be manifested in and by us.... In worshipping thee I worship my incarnate God, my Emmanuel ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

185:In so many multifarious ways, Saint John Henry Newman has been a blessing to the Church. How appropriate, therefore, that the Church has now conferred a great blessing upon Newman by raising him to the altar. The beatified Newman is in the Presence of the Beatific Vision. He has achieved the only goal for which life is worth living. As such, praise should make way for prayers. Blessed Saint John Henry Newman, historian, theologian, philosopher, and poet, pray for us. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

186:If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

187:God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

188:God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

189:Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

190:God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

191:Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

192:Above all, clergymen are bound to form and pronounce an opinion. It is sometimes said, in familiar language, that a clergyman should have nothing to do with politics. This is true, if it be meant that he should not aim at secular objects, should not side with a political party as such, should not be ambitious of popular applause, or the favour of great men, should not take pleasure and lose time in business of this world, should not be covetous. But if it means that he should not express an opinion and exert an influence one way rather than another, it is plainly unscriptural. Did ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

193:Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He is hidden in the brightness of the radiance which issues from the everlasting throne. He is in the very abyss of peace, where there is no voice of tumult or distress, but a deep stillness--stillness, that greatest and most awful of all goods which we can fancy; that most perfect of joys, the utter profound, ineffable tranquillity of the Divine Essence. He has entered into His rest. That is our home; here we are on a pilgrimage, and Christ calls us to His many mansions which He has prepared. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

194:The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them. Self-denial is an essential element in overcoming all three temptations. “One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers, in which idle men indulge themselves,” said Saint John Henry Newman. “The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that,” said Sterling. Making and keeping these three universal resolutions will accelerate our self-development and, potentially, increase our influence with others. ~ Stephen R Covey,

195:From My Life's Work by Cardinal Newman

God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next...I shall do good. I shall do His work if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am. I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him, if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

196:As to the Divine Design, is it not an instance of incomprehensibly and infinitely marvellous Wisdom and Design to have given certain laws to matter millions of ages ago, which have surely and precisely worked out, in the long course of those ages, those effects which He from the first proposed. Mr. Darwin's theory need not then to be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill. Perhaps your friend has got a surer clue to guide him than I have, who have never studied the question, and I do not [see] that 'the accidental evolution of organic beings' is inconsistent with divine design—It is accidental to us, not to God. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

197:I protest once for all, before men and Angels, that sin shall no more have dominion over me. This Lent I make myself God's own for ever. The salvation of my soul shall be my first concern. With the aid of His grace I will create in me a deep hatred and sorrow for my past sins. I will try hard to detest sin, as much as I have ever loved it. Into God's hands I put myself, not by halves, but unreservedly. I promise Thee, O Lord, with the help of Thy grace, to keep out of the way of temptation, to avoid all occasions of sin, to turn at once from the voice of the Evil One, to be regular in my prayers, so to die to sin that Thou mayest not have died for me on the Cross in vain. Pater, ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

198:Al negar toda autoridad trascendente se afirma que es el hombre quien se da el poder a sí mismo. A partir de ahí, como podemos ver en tantos ejemplos cercanos, se puede negar la potestad de los padres sobre los hijos, la validez de la Ley Natural o la misma existencia de una naturaleza humana quedando toda vida humana amenazada por la arbitrariedad del consenso. Así, la absolutización de lo humano a partir de la negación de lo divino irá acercando el advenimiento
del Anticristo. Newman se fija más en los signos que señalan la gran apostasía y que vincula al hecho de que todos los ámbitos de la vida social y política se estaban separando de lo religioso, intentando construir una vida humana sin ninguna referencia a Dios. La gran apostasía, en la que se enfriará la fe de muchos, precederá a la manifestación del Anticristo. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

199:And this is the sense of the word "grammar" which our inaccurate student detests, and this is the sense of the word which every sensible tutor will maintain. His maxim is "a little, but well"; that is, really know what you say you know: know what you know and what you do not know; get one thing well before you go on to a second; try to ascertain what your words mean; when you read a sentence, picture it before your mind as a whole, take in the truth or information contained in it, express it in your own words, and, if it be important, commit it to the faithful memory. Again, compare one idea with another; adjust truths and facts; form them into one whole, or notice the obstacles which occur in doing so. This is the way to make progress; this is the way to arrive at results; not to swallow knowledge, but (according to the figure sometimes used) to masticate and digest it. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

200:Lead, Kindly Light, amidst th'encircling gloom,
Lead Thou me on!
The night is dark, and I am far from home,
Lead Thou me on!
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene; one step enough for me.
I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou
Shouldst lead me on;
I loved to choose and see my path; but now
Lead Thou me on!
I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will. Remember not past years!
So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still
Will lead me on.
O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrent, till
The night is gone,
And with the morn those angel faces smile,
Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile!
Meantime, along the narrow rugged path,
Thyself hast trod,
Lead, Saviour, lead me home in childlike faith,
Home to my God.
To rest forever after earthly strife
In the calm light of everlasting life. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

201:God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.

He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work. I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it if I do but keep His commandments.

Therefore, I will trust Him, whatever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him, in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him. If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends. He may throw me among strangers. He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me. Still, He knows what He is about. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

202:If then the power of speech is as great as any that can be named,—if the origin of language is by many philosophers considered nothing short of divine—if by means of words the secrets of the heart are brought to light, pain of soul is relieved, hidden grief is carried off, sympathy conveyed, experience recorded, and wisdom perpetuated,—if by great authors the many are drawn up into unity, national character is fixed, a people speaks, the past and the future, the East and the West are brought into communication with each other,—if such men are, in a word, the spokesmen and the prophets of the human family—it will not answer to make light of Literature or to neglect its study: rather we may be sure that, in proportion as we master it in whatever language, and imbibe its spirit, we shall ourselves become in our own measure the ministers of like benefits to others—be they many or few, be they in the obscurer or the more distinguished walks of life—who are united to us by social ties, and are within the sphere of our personal influence. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

203:I want something; I know not what. It is you that I want, though I so little understand this. I say it and take it on faith; I partially understand it, but very poorly. Shine on me “O fire ever burning and never failing,” and I shall begin, through and in your light, to see light and to recognize you truly, as the source of light. Mane nobiscum. Stay, sweet Jesus; stay forever. In this decay of nature, give more grace. Stay with me, and then I shall begin to shine as you shine: so to shine as to be a light to others. The light, O Jesus, will be all from you. None of it will be mine. No merit to me. It will be you who shine through me upon others. Oh, let me thus praise you, in the way you love best, by shining on all those around me. Give light to them as well as to me; light them with me, through me. Teach me to show forth your praise, your truth, your will. Make me preach you without preaching — not by words, but by my example and by the catching force, the sympathetic influence, of what I do — by my visible resemblance to your saints, and the evident fullness of the love which my heart bears to you. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

204:To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of man, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts; and then their ways, habits, governments, forms of worship; their enterprises, their aimless courses, their random achievements, and acquirements, the impotent conclusion of long-standing facts, the tokens so faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress of things, as if from unreasoning elements, not toward final causes, the greatness and littleness of man, his far-reaching aims, his short duration, the curtain hung over his futurity, the disappointments of life, the defeat of good, the success of evil, physical pain, mental anguish, the prevalence of sin, the pervading idolatries, the corruptions, the dreary hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole race, so fearfully yet exactly described in the Apostle's words, "having no hope and without God in the world," - all this is a vision to dizzy and appall; and inflicts upon the mind the sense of a profound mystery, which is absolutely beyond human solution. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

205:Such is the state of things in England, and it is well that it should be realised by all of us; but it must not be supposed for a moment that I am afraid of it. I lament it deeply, because I foresee that it may be the ruin of many souls; but I have no fear at all that it really can do aught of serious harm to the Word of God, to Holy Church, to our Almighty King, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, Faithful and True, or to His Vicar on earth. Christianity has been too often in what seemed deadly peril, that we should fear for it any new trial now. So far is certain; on the other hand, what is uncertain, and in these great contests commonly is uncertain, and what is commonly a great surprise, when it is witnessed, is the particular mode by which, in the event, Providence rescues and saves His elect inheritance. Sometimes our enemy is turned into a friend; sometimes he is despoiled of that special virulence of evil which was so threatening; sometimes he falls to pieces of himself; sometimes he does just so much as is beneficial, and then is removed. Commonly the Church has nothing more to do than to go on in her own proper duties, in confidence and peace; to stand still and to see the salvation of God. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

206:The Pilgrim Queen
(A Song)

There sat a Lady
all on the ground,
Rays of the morning
circled her round,
Save thee, and hail to thee,
Gracious and Fair,
In the chill twilight
what wouldst thou there?

'Here I sit desolate,'
sweetly said she,
'Though I'm a queen,
and my name is Marie:
Robbers have rifled
my garden and store,
Foes they have stolen
my heir from my bower.

'They said they could keep Him
far better than I,
In a palace all His,
planted deep and raised high.
'Twas a palace of ice,
hard and cold as were they,
And when summer came,
it all melted away.

'Next would they barter Him,
Him the Supreme,
For the spice of the desert,
and gold of the stream;
And me they bid wander
in weeds and alone,
In this green merry land
which once was my own.'

I look'd on that Lady,
and out from her eyes
Came the deep glowing blue
of Italy's skies;
And she raised up her head
and she smiled, as a Queen
On the day of her crowning,
so bland and serene.

'A moment,' she said,
'and the dead shall revive;
The giants are failing,
the Saints are alive;
I am coming to rescue
my home and my reign,
And Peter and Philip
are close in my train. ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

207:Christians can relax a bit about the world and its politics: not to the point of indifference or insouciance or irresponsibility, but in the firm conviction that, at the extremity of the world’s agony and at the summit of its glories, Jesus remains Lord. The primary responsibility of Christian disciples is to remain faithful to the bold proclamation of that great truth, which is the truth that the world most urgently needs to hear.” 7 Or, as Saint John Henry Newman put it, “[ The Church’s task is] not to turn the whole earth into a heaven, but to bring down a heaven upon earth.” 8 Christians, then, have the task of leading the world to the truth about itself. But in our time—as in the time of Diognetus—the world doesn’t want to hear it. The world hates the story Christians tell. It no longer believes in “sin.” It doesn’t understand the forgiveness of sinners. It finds the ideas of a personal God, immortality, grace, miracles, the Incarnation, the Resurrection, and the whole architecture of the sacraments and the “supernatural” more and more implausible. It sneers at the restraints the Gospel places on appetites and ego. And in place of the Christian narrative of history, it lowers the human horizon to a relentless now of distractions, desires, and suppressed questions about meaning. This empty shell of a life leads in small, anesthetic steps to nihilism: In effect, the “truth” of our time in the world seems to be that there is no truth, that life has no point, and that asking the big questions is for suckers. The Lutheran theologian Robert Jenson has observed that we live in a world that has lost its story. 9 Thus the Church’s task is to tell and retell the world its story, whether it claims to be interested or not. ~ Charles J Chaput,

208:Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, the conscience-killing tyranny of Rome! We have not far to seek for an evidence of it. There's Father Newman to wit: one living specimen is worth a hundred dead ones. He, a Priest writing of Priests, tells us that lying is never any harm.'
I interpose: 'You are taking a most extraordinary liberty with my name. If I have said this, tell me when and where.'
Mr Kingsley replies: 'You said it, Reverend Sir, in a Sermon which you preached, when a Protestant, as Vicar of St Mary's, and published in 1844; and I could read you a very salutary lecture on the effects which that Sermon had at the time on my own opinion of you.'
I make answer: 'Oh...NOT, it seems, as a Priest speaking of Priests-but let us have the passage.'
Mr Kingsley relaxes: 'Do you know, I like your TONE. From your TONE I rejoice, greatly rejoice, to be able to believe that you did not mean what you said.'
I rejoin: 'MEAN it! I maintain I never SAID it, whether as a Protestant or as a Catholic.'
Mr Kingsley replies: 'I waive that point.'
I object: 'Is it possible! What? waive the main question! I either said it or I didn't. You have made a monstrous charge against me; direct, distinct, public. You are bound to prove it as directly, as distinctly, as publicly-or to own you can't.'
'Well,' says Mr Kingsley, 'if you are quite sure you did not say it, I'll take your word for it; I really will.'
My WORD! I am dumb. Somehow I thought that it was my WORD that happened to be on trial. The WORD of a Professor of lying, that he does not lie!
But Mr Kingsley reassures me: 'We are both gentlemen,' he says: 'I have done as much as one English gentleman can expect from another.'
I begin to see: he thought me a gentleman at the very time he said I taught lying on system... ~ Saint John Henry Newman,

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