John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman C.O., also referred to as Cardinal Newman, John Henry Cardinal Newman, and Blessed John Henry Newman, was a Catholic cardinal and theologian who was a very important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth21 February 1801
virtue one-thing
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
war law done
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.
protestants cease
To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
resentment get-up difficult
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
moving heart animal
Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they have done us no harm; next that they have no power whatsoever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny, of which they are the victims, which make their sufferings so especially touching. There is something so very dreadful, so satanic in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
giving inspire religion
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.
science found function
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
teacher order errors
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of 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.
heart mean men
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.
evil substance excess
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
knowledge mind rewards
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
inspirational change wish
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.
health blessing mind
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
creeps certainty soar
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.