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John Henry Newman
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“Cor ad cor loquitur.”
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Personal motto, reported in Henry James Jennings, Cardinal Newman: The Story of His Life, 2nd ed. (Birmingham: Houghton & Co, 1882), p. 149
Also quoted by: Francis de Sales
“There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast, when struggling passions lower; Touch'd by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.”
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Recorded in: Solitude (1818)
“Men live after their death—they live not only in their writings or their chronicled history, but still more in that ἄγραφος μνήμη exhibited in a school of pupils who trace their moral parentage to them.”
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Recorded in: Letter to Rev. S. Rickards (20 July 1830), quoted in Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the English Church With a Brief Autobiography, Vol. I, ed. Anne Mozley (1890), p. 203
“Time hath a taming hand.”
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Recorded in: Persecution, st. 3 (1832)
“Sin can read sin, but dimly scans high grace.”
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Recorded in: Isaac (1833)
“Christian! hence learn to do thy part, And leave the rest to Heaven.”
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Recorded in: St. Paul at Melita, st. 3 (1833)
“Lead, Kindly Light, amid the 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.”
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Recorded in: The Pillar of the Cloud, st. 1 (1833)
“And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.”
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Recorded in: The Pillar of the Cloud, st. 3 (1833)
“There never was a time when God had not spoken to man, and told him to a certain extent his duty. His injunctions to Noah, the common father of all mankind, is the first recorded fact of the sacred history after the deluge. Accordingly, we are expressly told in the New Testament, that at no time He left Himself without witness in the world, and that in every nation He accepts those who fear and obey Him.”
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Recorded in: The Arians of the Fourth Century, Their Doctrine, Temper, and Conduct, Chiefly as Exhibited in the Councils of the Church, Between A.D. 325, & A.D. 381 (1833), p. 88
“It would seem, then, that there is something true and divinely revealed, in every religion all over the earth, overloaded, as it may be, and at times even stifled by the impieties which the corrupt will and understanding of man have incorporated with it. Such are the doctrines of the power and presence of an invisible God, of His moral law and governance, of the obligation of duty, and the certainty of a just judgment, and of reward and punishment being dispensed in the end to individuals; so that revelation, properly speaking, is an universal, not a partial gift.”
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Recorded in: The Arians of the Fourth Century, Their Doctrine, Temper, and Conduct, Chiefly as Exhibited in the Councils of the Church, Between A.D. 325, & A.D. 381 (1833), pp. 88-89
“The Apostles lived eighteen hundred years since; and as far as the Christian looks back, so far can he afford to look forward. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, from first to last.”
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“Reason is God's gift; but so are the passions.”
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“Again, are not the principles of unbelief certain to dissolve human society? and is not this plain fact, candidly considered, enough to show that unbelief cannot be a right condition of our nature? for who can believe that we were intended to live in anarchy? If we have no good reasons for believing, at least we have no good reasons for disbelieving. If you ask why we are Christians, we ask in turn, why should we not be Christians? It will be enough to remain where we are, till you do what you never can do—prove to us for certain that the Gospel is not Divine.”
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“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”
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Recorded in: Letter to Mrs William Froude (27 June 1848)
“Such is the rule of our warfare. We advance by yielding; we rise by falling; we conquer by suffering; we persuade by silence; we become rich by bountifulness; we inherit the earth through meekness; we gain comfort through mourning; we earn glory by penitence and prayer. Heaven and earth shall sooner fall than this rule be reversed; it is the law of Christ's kingdom, and nothing can reverse it but sin.”
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“[W]hether we will believe it or no, the truth remains, that the strength of the Church, as heretofore, does not lie in earthly law, or human countenance, or civil station, but in her proper gifts; in those great gifts which our Lord pronounced to be beatitudes. Blessed are the poor in spirit, the mourners, the meek, the thirsters after righteousness, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peace makers, the persecuted.”
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“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 safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last!”
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“Whatever be historical Christianity, it is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.”
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“In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
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“We are told that God has spoken. Where? In a book? We have tried it, and it disappoints; it disappoints, that most holy and blessed gift, not from fault of its own, but because it is used for a purpose for which it was not given. The Ethiopian's reply, when St. Philip asked him if he understood what he was reading, is the voice of nature; "How can I, unless some man shall guide me?" The Church undertakes that office; she does what none else can do, and this is the secret of the power.”
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“Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.”
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Recorded in: A Martyr Convert, st. 3 (1856). Also in Callista Chapter 36 (1855)
“After he had gone over the mansion, his entertainer asked him what he thought of the splendours it contained; and he in reply did full justice to the riches of its owner and the skill of its decorators, but he added, "Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.”
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“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, and who know enough of history to defend it. I want an intelligent, well-instructed laity.”
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“Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.”
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“Good is never done except at the expense of those who do it: truth is never enforced except at the sacrifice of its propounders.”
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“It is then an integral portion of the Faith fixed by Ecumenical Council, a portion of it which you hold as well as I, that the Blessed Virgin is Theotocos, Deipara, or Mother of God; and this word, when thus used, carries with it no admixture of rhetoric, no taint of extravagant affection,—it has nothing else but a well-weighed, grave, dogmatic sense, which corresponds and is adequate to its sound. It intends to express that God is her Son, as truly as any one of us is the son of his own mother.”
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Recorded in: A Letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D. On His Recent Eirenicon (1866), p. 66
“So living Nature, not dull Art, Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.”
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Recorded in: Nature and Art, st. 12 (1868)
“Growth is the only evidence of life.”
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“I do not shrink from uttering my firm conviction that it would be a gain to the country were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion than at present it shows itself to be.”
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“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.”
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“As I have already said, there are but two alternatives, the way to Rome, and the way to Atheism.”
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“Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.”
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“Moreover, there is this harm too, and one of vast extent, and touching men generally, that by insincerity and lying faith and truth are lost, which are the firmest bonds of human society, and, when they are lost, supreme confusion follows in life, so that men seem in nothing to differ from devils.”
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“Firmly I believe and truly God is Three, and God is One; And I next acknowledge duly Manhood taken by the Son.”
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“It is thy very energy of thought Which keeps thee from thy God.”
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“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!”
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“The natural truths of science, physical, moral, social, political, material, are all from God—as those of the supernatural order are. Man abused supernatural truths in the medieval time, as well as used them; and now man uses natural truths, as well as abuses them. I am not determining which of the two abuses is the greater profanation, I only say that the one age is not all light, the other all darkness; and I think that, in matter of fact, more can be said for this age than you seem to allow.”
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Recorded in: Letter to W. S. Lilly (25 July 1876), quoted in The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, Volume XXVIII: Fellow of Trinity, January 1876 to December 1878, eds. Charles Stephen Dessain and Thomas Gornall, S.J. (1975)…
“There is this obvious, undeniable difficulty in the attempt to form a theory of Private Judgment, in the choice of a religion, that Private Judgment leads different minds in such different directions. If, indeed, there be no religious truth, or at least no sufficient means of arriving at it, then the difficulty vanishes: for where there is nothing to find, there can be no rules for seeking, and contradiction in the result is but a of the attempt.”
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Recorded in: Vol. II, Essay XIII: "Private Judgment", p. 336. First published in (July 1841).
“Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.”
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“The past never returns; the course of events, old in its texture, is ever new in its colouring and fashion”
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“As to the range of University teaching, certainly the very name of University is inconsistent with restrictions of any kind. Whatever was the original reason of the adoption of that term, which is unknown1, I am only putting on it its popular, its recognized sense, when I say that a University should teach universal knowledge.”
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“Truth is the object of Knowledge of whatever kind; and when we inquire what is meant by Truth, I suppose it is right to answer that Truth means facts and their relations, which stand towards each other pretty much as subjects and predicates in logic.”
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“Knowledge is capable of being its own end. Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.”
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“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.”
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“Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.”
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“We attain to heaven by using this world well, though it is to pass away; we perfect our nature, not by undoing it, but by adding to it what is more than nature, and directing it towards aims higher than its own.”
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“The world is content with setting right the surface of things.”
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“It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain.”
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“A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.”
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“We must either give up the belief in the Church as a divine institution altogether, or we must recognize it in that communion of which the Pope is the head. With him alone and round about him are found the claims, the prerogatives, and duties which we identify with the kingdom set up by Christ. We must take things as they are; to believe in a Church, is to believe in the Pope. And thus this belief in the Pope and his attributes, which seems so monstrous to Protestants, is bound up with our being Catholics at all; as our Catholicism is with our Christianity.”
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