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
beautiful eye men
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.
religious eye waiting
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.
fear life rather shall thy
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
perfection
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
doubt
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
health blessing mind
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
mutual-respect lasting mutual
It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.
faith christian inspiration
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.
fall men dogma
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
life success pain
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
bird instruments resources
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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.
firsts pope toasts
I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
resentment get-up difficult
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.