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
spiritual jesus world
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?
death years might
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.
serving-others missions committed
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.
fickle decay world
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.
hazards ends ifs
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
soul catholic purity-and-love
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
wish
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
beautiful perfect moral
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.
science men literature
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
pain mind trouble
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
blessed mean clouds
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.
height way depth
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.
artist lions
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.