Inspirational Quotes by John Henry Newman
“Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.”
topics: Virtue
“There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.”
topics: War
“If you ask me what you are to do in order to be perfect, I say, first—Do not lie in bed beyond the due time of rising; give your first thoughts to God; make a good visit to the Blessed Sacrament; say the Angelus devoutly; eat and drink to God’s glory; say the Rosary well; be recollected; keep out bad thoughts; make your evening meditation well; examine yourself daily; go to bed in good time, and you are already perfect.”
“Al negar toda autoridad trascendente se afirma que es el hombre quien se da el poder a sí mismo. A partir de ahí, como podemos ver en tantos ejemplos cercanos, se puede negar la potestad de los padres sobre los hijos, la validez de la Ley Natural o la misma existencia de una naturaleza humana quedando toda vida humana amenazada por la arbitrariedad del consenso. Así, la absolutización de lo humano a partir de la negación de lo divino irá acercando el advenimiento del Anticristo. Newman se fija más en los signos que señalan la gran apostasía y que vincula al hecho de que todos los ámbitos de la vida social y política se estaban separando de lo religioso, intentando construir una vida humana sin ninguna referencia a Dios. La gran apostasía, en la que se enfriará la fe de muchos, precederá a la manifestación del Anticristo.”
“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.”
“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. Luego de abjurar de nuestro Señor y Salvador,”
“In so many multifarious ways, John Henry Newman has been a blessing to the Church. How appropriate, therefore, that the Church has now conferred a great blessing upon Newman by raising him to the altar. The beatified Newman is in the Presence of the Beatific Vision. He has achieved the only goal for which life is worth living. As such, praise should make way for prayers. Blessed John Henry Newman, historian, theologian, philosopher, and poet, pray for us.”
“it is a vast assemblage of human beings with wilful intellects and wild passions, brought together into one by the beauty and the Majesty of a Superhuman Power,—into what may be called a large reformatory or training-school, not as if into a hospital or into a prison, not in order to be sent to bed, not to be buried alive, but (if I may change my metaphor) brought together as if into some moral factory, for the melting, refining, and moulding, by an incessant, noisy process, of the raw material of human nature, so excellent, so dangerous, so capable of divine purposes.”
“The Via Media has slept in libraries; it is a substitute of infancy for manhood.”
“Let them be fierce with you who have no experience of the difficulty with which error is discriminated from truth, and the way of life is found amid the illusions of the world.”
“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”
“Los movimientos vivos no nacen de comisiones, ni las grandes ideas operan por correo,”
“Doing is at a far greater distance from intending to do than you at first sight imagine. Join”
“[I]t is only as we labour to change our nature, through God’s help, and to serve Him truly, that we begin to discern the beauty of holiness. Then, at length, we find reason to suspect our own judgments of what is truly good, and perceive our own blindness; for by degrees we find that those whose opinions and conduct we hitherto despised or wondered at as extravagant or unaccountable or weak, really know more than ourselves, and are above us—and so, ever as we rise in knowledge and grow in spiritual illumination, they (to our amazement) rise also, while we look at them. The better we are, the more we understand their excellence; till at length we are taught something of their Divine Master’s perfections also, which before were hid from us.”
“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.”
“Take me away, and in the lowest deep There let me be...”
topics: purgatory-judgment-death-penance
“Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal”
topics: literature
“Catholicism is a deep matter. You cannot take it up in a teacup” [..] “You must consent to think.”
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John Henry Newman was a Roman Catholic priest and cardinal who converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism in October 1845. In early life, he was a major figure in the Oxford Movement to bring the Church of England back to its Catholic roots.
Eventually his studies in history persuaded him to become a Roman Catholic. Both before and after becoming a Roman Catholic, he wrote a number of influential books.