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
thinking expression style
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
giving want creeds
I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
matter reason intellect
A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
teacher anxiety details
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.
science men literature
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
struggle passion sky
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.
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.
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.
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.
reflection decision want
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.
people
Go down again - I dwell among the people.
struggle fighting white
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.
hands taming
Time hath a taming hand.
heart people ears
The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.