John Henry Newman citáty

„Žiť znamená meniť sa. A dostať sa na takú úroveň dokonalosti, ktorú ešte nikto nedosiahol, znamená prejsť mnohými a častými zmenami.“

—  John Henry Newman

Prisudzované výroky

„Kto sa vzdiali od Boha, neuniká jeho moci, vymyká sa len z jeho lásky.“

—  John Henry Newman

Prisudzované výroky

„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

„The more I read of Athanasius, Theodoret, etc, the more I see that the ancients did make the Scriptures the basis of their belief.“

—  John Henry Newman, kniha Apologia Pro Vita Sua

To Richard Hurrell Froude, August 23, 1835.
Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the English Church, 1890, Anne Mozley, ed., Longmans’s Green & Co., London, New York, Volume 2, p. 113. http://books.google.com/books?id=uak8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA113&dq=%22the+more+i+read+of+athanasius,+theodoret%22&hl=en&ei=CeBlTqH1K4m2sQL91pm3Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22the%20more%20i%20read%20of%20athanasius%2C%20theodoret%22&f=false
Kontext: The more I read of Athanasius, Theodoret, etc, the more I see that the ancients did make the Scriptures the basis of their belief. The only question is, would they have done so in another point besides the θεολογία (theology), etc, which happened in the early ages to be in discussion? I incline to say the Creed is the faith necessary to salvation, as well as to Church communion, and to maintain that Scripture, according to the Fathers, is the authentic record and document of this faith.
It surely is reasonable that 'necessary to salvation' should apply to the Baptismal Creed: 'In the name of,' etc (vid. He who believeth etc.). Now the Apostles' Creed is nothing but this; for the Holy Catholic Church, etc [in it] are but the medium through which God comes to us. Now this θεολογία, I say, the Fathers do certainly rest on Scripture, as upon two tables of stone. I am surprised more and more to see how entirely they fall into Hawkins’s theory even in set words, that Scripture proves and the Church teaches. http://books.google.com/books?id=JbwJVBOvECwC&pg=PA66&dq=%22that+the+sacred+text+was+never+intended+to+teach+doctrine,+but+only+to+prove+it%22&hl=en&ei=k-RlTq__FOStsQKOwrCzCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22that%20the%20sacred%20text%20was%20never%20intended%20to%20teach%20doctrine%2C%20but%20only%20to%20prove%20it%22&f=false
I believe it would be extremely difficult to show that tradition is ever considered by them (in matters of faith) more than interpretative of Scripture. It seems that when a heresy rose they said at once ‘That is not according to the Church's teaching,’ i. e. they decided it by the praejudicium [N. B. prescription] of authority.
Again, when they met together in council, they brought the witness of tradition as a matter of fact, but when they discussed the matter in council, cleared their views, etc., proved their power, they always went to Scripture alone. They never said 'It must be so and so, because St. Cyrian says this, St. Clement explains in his third book of the "Paedagogue," etc.' and with reason; for the Fathers are a witness only as one voice, not in individual instances, or, much less, isolated passages, but every word of Scripture is inspired and available.

„We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.“

—  John Henry Newman

Letter to Mrs William Froude, 27 June 1848.

„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.“

—  John Henry Newman

Lecture IX
Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (1851)

„To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.“

—  John Henry Newman

Varianta: In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
Zdroj: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845), Chapter 1, Section 1, Part 7.

„Growth is the only evidence of life.“

—  John Henry Newman

Apologia pro Vita Sua http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newman/apologia1.html (1864).

„A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.“

—  John Henry Newman

Discourse VIII, pt. 10.
The Idea of a University (1873)

„Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.“

—  John Henry Newman

„Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.“

—  John Henry Newman

„It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain.“

—  John Henry Newman

Discourse VIII, pt. 10. http://books.google.com/books?id=YdrJkVPhptwC&q=%22it+is+Almost+a%22+%22a+gentle+man+to+say+he+is+one+who+never+inflicts+pain%22&pg=PA208#v=onepage
The Idea of a University (1873)

„Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? … They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which make their sufferings so especially touching. Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God. … There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.“

—  John Henry Newman

Parochial and Plain Sermons, London, 1868; quoted in Matthew Scully, [//books.google.it/books?id=SYY7AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT30 Dominion] (2002).

„To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.“

—  John Henry Newman

Introduction, Part 5.
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845)

„Where good and ill together blent,
Wage an undying strife.“

—  John Henry Newman

A Martyr Convert http://www.newmanreader.org/works/verses/verse170.html, st. 3 (1856). Also in Callista Chapter 36 http://www.newmanreader.org/works/callista/chapter36.html (1855).

„From shadows and symbols into the truth!“

—  John Henry Newman

His own epitaph at Edgbaston
Originál: (la) Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem!

„The world is content with setting right the surface of things.“

—  John Henry Newman

Discourse VIII, pt. 8.
The Idea of a University (1873)

„Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.“

—  John Henry Newman

Discourse V, pt. 9.
The Idea of a University (1873)

„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.“

—  John Henry Newman

Apologia Pro Vita Sua [A defense of one's own life] (1864)