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John Henry Newman QUOTES

41 " La llamaron Libertad, y literalmente la adoraron como a una divinidad. Parecería increíble que aquellos mismos hombres que se desembarazaron de toda religión terminasen adorando, en son de burla o por superstición, una nueva e insensata deidad de su invención, si no fuese porque los sucesos son tan recientes y notorios. "

― John Henry Newman , Cuatro sermones sobre el Anticristo: La idea patrística del Anticristo en cuatro sermones (Religión)

42 " A true development, then, may be described as one which is conservative of the course of antecedent developments being really those antecedents and something besides them: it is an addition which illustrates, not obscures, corroborates, not corrects, the body of thought from which it proceeds; and this is its characteristic as contrasted with a corruption. "

― John Henry Newman , John Henry Newman: 5 Works: An Essay On The Development Of Christian Doctrine, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Parochial And Plain Sermons Vol. VII & Vol. VIII,Loss And Gain, Callista

43 " A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine "

― John Henry Newman , John Henry Newman: 5 Works: An Essay On The Development Of Christian Doctrine, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Parochial And Plain Sermons Vol. VII & Vol. VIII,Loss And Gain, Callista

44 " Mary became the window of heaven, for God through her poured the True Light upon the world; the "

― John Henry Newman , John Henry Newman: 5 Works: An Essay On The Development Of Christian Doctrine, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Parochial And Plain Sermons Vol. VII & Vol. VIII,Loss And Gain, Callista

45 " When the Apostles were taken away, Christianity did not at once break into portions; yet separate localities might begin to be the scene of internal dissensions, and a local arbiter in consequence would be wanted. Christians "

― John Henry Newman , John Henry Newman: 5 Works: An Essay On The Development Of Christian Doctrine, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Parochial And Plain Sermons Vol. VII & Vol. VIII,Loss And Gain, Callista

46 " If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflexion of its Creator. "

― John Henry Newman , Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defense of One's Life)

47 " Its home is in the world; and to know what it is, we must seek it in the world, and hear the world's witness of it. "

― John Henry Newman , An Essay On the Development of Christian Doctrine

48 " Above all, clergymen are bound to form and pronounce an opinion. It is sometimes said, in familiar language, that a clergyman should have nothing to do with politics. This is true, if it be meant that he should not aim at secular objects, should not side with a political party as such, should not be ambitious of popular applause, or the favour of great men, should not take pleasure and lose time in business of this world, should not be covetous. But if it means that he should not express an opinion and exert an influence one way rather than another, it is plainly unscriptural. Did "

― John Henry Newman , Parochial and Plain Sermons [Complete]

49 " Doctrine without its correspondent principle remains barren, if not lifeless, of which the Greek Church seems an instance; or "

― John Henry Newman , John Henry Newman: 5 Works: An Essay On The Development Of Christian Doctrine, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Parochial And Plain Sermons Vol. VII & Vol. VIII,Loss And Gain, Callista

50 " Doing is at a far greater distance from intending to do than you at first sight imagine. Join "

― John Henry Newman , Parochial and Plain Sermons [Complete]

51 " Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more. "

― John Henry Newman , The Idea of a University

52 " I want something; I know not what. It is you that I want, though I so little understand this. I say it and take it on faith; I partially understand it, but very poorly. Shine on me “O fire ever burning and never failing,” and I shall begin, through and in your light, to see light and to recognize you truly, as the source of light. Mane nobiscum. Stay, sweet Jesus; stay forever. In this decay of nature, give more grace. Stay with me, and then I shall begin to shine as you shine: so to shine as to be a light to others. The light, O Jesus, will be all from you. None of it will be mine. No merit to me. It will be you who shine through me upon others. Oh, let me thus praise you, in the way you love best, by shining on all those around me. Give light to them as well as to me; light them with me, through me. Teach me to show forth your praise, your truth, your will. Make me preach you without preaching — not by words, but by my example and by the catching force, the sympathetic influence, of what I do — by my visible resemblance to your saints, and the evident fullness of the love which my heart bears to you. "

― John Henry Newman , Everyday Meditations

53 " Ihre Geheimnisse sind nicht anderes als die in menschliche Sprache gekleideten Formeln von Wahrheiten, die der menschliche Geist nicht zu erfassen vermag "

― John Henry Newman , Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defense of One's Life)

54 " Lebendige Bewegungen gehen nicht von Komitees aus und große Ideen werden nicht durch einen Briefwechsel ausgearbeitet, selbst wenn das Porto noch so günstig ist. "

― John Henry Newman , Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defense of One's Life)

55 " The refutation and remedy of errors cannot precede their rise; and thus the fact of false developments or corruptions involves the correspondent manifestation of true ones. Moreover, "

― John Henry Newman , John Henry Newman: 5 Works: An Essay On The Development Of Christian Doctrine, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Parochial And Plain Sermons Vol. VII & Vol. VIII,Loss And Gain, Callista

56 " I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people. "

― John Henry Newman

57 " 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. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.

He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work. I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it if I do but keep His commandments.

Therefore, I will trust Him, whatever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him, in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him. If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends. He may throw me among strangers. He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me. Still, He knows what He is about. "

― John Henry Newman

58 " The rulers of the world were Monks, when they could not be Martyrs. "

― John Henry Newman

59 " People say to me, that it is but a dream to suppose that Christianity should regain the organic power in human society which it once possessed. I cannot help that; I never said it could. I am not a politician; I am proposing no measures, but exposing a fallacy, and resisting a pretence. Let Benthamism reign, if men have no aspirations; but do not tell them to be romantic, and then solace them with glory; do not attempt by philosophy what once was done by religion. The ascendancy of Faith may be impracticable, but the reign of Knowledge is incomprehensible. The problem for statesmen of this age is how to educate the masses, and literature and science cannot give the solution. "

― John Henry Newman ,

60 " En un mundo superior puede ser de otra manera, pero aquí abajo, vivir es cambiar y ser perfecto es haber cambiado muchas veces. "

― John Henry Newman