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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
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god
love
inspirational
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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.
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christianity
religion
god
catholicism
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John Henry Newman |
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Lead, Kindly Light, amidst th'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. I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou Shouldst lead me on; I loved to choose and see my path; but now Lead Thou me on! I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will. Remember not past years! So long Thy power hath ..
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John Henry Newman |
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If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical an..
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knowledge
university
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John Henry Newman |
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Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes, The art of syren choirs; Hush the seductive voice that floats Across the trembling wires. Music's ethereal power was given Not to dissolve our clay,
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misinterpreted
poetic
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John Henry Newman |
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Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.
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faith
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John Henry Newman |
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Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and the..
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self-knowledge
god
god-s-grace
heretics
infidels
the-church
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John Henry Newman |
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Boys do not fully know what is good and what is evil; they do wrong things at first almost innocently. Novelty hides vice from them; there is no one to warn them or give them rules; and they become slaves of sin, while they are learning what sin is.
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John Henry Newman |
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Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post.
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John Henry Newman |
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A Song) There sat a Lady all on the ground, Rays of the morning circled her round, Save thee, and hail to thee, Gracious and Fair, In the chill twilight what wouldst thou there? 'Here I sit desolate,' sweetly said she, 'Though I'm a queen, and my name is Marie: Robbers have rifled my garden and store, Foes they have stolen my heir from my bower. 'They said they could keep Him far better than I, In a palace all His, planted deep a..
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mary
queen
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John Henry Newman |
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From My Life's Work by Cardinal Newman
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job-hunting
life-mission
perplexity
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John Henry Newman |
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But one aspect of Revelation must not be allowed to exclude or to obscure another; and Christianity is dogmatical, devotional, practical all at once; it is esoteric and exoteric; it is indulgent and strict; it is light and dark; it is love, and it is fear.
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John Henry Newman |
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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. It brings the mind into form,--for the mind is like the body.
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John Henry Newman |
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It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples' feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation.
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service
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John Henry Newman |
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The world then is the enemy of our souls; first, because, however innocent its pleasures, and praiseworthy its pursuits may be, they are likely to engross us, unless we are on our guard: and secondly, because in all its best pleasures, and noblest pursuits, the seeds of sin have been sown; an enemy hath done this; so that it is most difficult to enjoy the good without partaking of the evil also.
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John Henry Newman |
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Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, the conscience-killing tyranny of Rome! We have not far to seek for an evidence of it. There's Father Newman to wit: one living specimen is worth a hundred dead ones. He, a Priest writing of Priests, tells us that lying is never any harm.' I interpose: 'You are taking a most extraordinary liberty with my name. If I have said this, tell me when ..
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humorous
satire
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John Henry Newman |
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And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.
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John Henry Newman |
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La llamaron Libertad, y literalmente la adoraron como a una divinidad. Pareceria increible que aquellos mismos hombres que se desembarazaron de toda religion terminasen adorando, en son de burla o por supersticion, una nueva e insensata deidad de su invencion, si no fuese porque los sucesos son tan recientes y notorios. Luego de abjurar de nuestro Senor y Salvador,
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John Henry Newman |
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The nature of the case and the history of philosophy combine to recommend to us this division of intellectual labour between Academies and Universities. To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person. He, too, who spends his day in dispensing his existing knowledge to all comers is unlikely to have either leisure or energy to acquire new.
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John Henry Newman |
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What is more likely, considering our perverse nature, than that we should neglect the duties, while we wish to retain the privileges of our Christian profession? Our
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John Henry Newman |
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman
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John Henry Newman |
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The heart is a secret with its Maker; no one on earth can hope to get at it or to touch it.
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John Henry Newman |
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The minds of young people are pliable and elastic, and easily accommodate themselves to any one they fall in with.
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John Henry Newman |
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Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.
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John Henry Newman |
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Of all points of faith, the being of a God is, to my own apprehension, encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power.
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John Henry Newman |
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To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life.
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John Henry Newman |
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I protest once for all, before men and Angels, that sin shall no more have dominion over me. This Lent I make myself God's own for ever. The salvation of my soul shall be my first concern. With the aid of His grace I will create in me a deep hatred and sorrow for my past sins. I will try hard to detest sin, as much as I have ever loved it. Into God's hands I put myself, not by halves, but unreservedly. I promise Thee, O Lord, with the help ..
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John Henry Newman |
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On the whole, all parties will agree that, of all existing systems, the present communion of Rome is the nearest approximation in fact to the Church of the Fathers, possible
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John Henry Newman |
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Judaism, again, was rejected when it rejected the Messiah.
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John Henry Newman |
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La llamaron Libertad, y literalmente la adoraron como a una divinidad. Pareceria increible que aquellos mismos hombres que se desembarazaron de toda religion terminasen adorando, en son de burla o por supersticion, una nueva e insensata deidad de su invencion, si no fuese porque los sucesos son tan recientes y notorios.
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John Henry Newman |
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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.
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John Henry Newman |
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A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine
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John Henry Newman |
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Mary became the window of heaven, for God through her poured the True Light upon the world; the
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John Henry Newman |
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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
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John Henry Newman |
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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.
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John Henry Newman |
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Al negar toda autoridad trascendente se afirma que es el hombre quien se da el poder a si mismo. A partir de ahi, 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. Asi, la absolutizacion de lo humano a partir de la negacion de lo divino ira ac..
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John Henry Newman |
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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.
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John Henry Newman |
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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 cove..
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John Henry Newman |
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Doctrine without its correspondent principle remains barren, if not lifeless, of which the Greek Church seems an instance; or
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John Henry Newman |
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Doing is at a far greater distance from intending to do than you at first sight imagine. Join
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John Henry Newman |
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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.
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John Henry Newman |
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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 the..
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John Henry Newman |
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Ihre Geheimnisse sind nicht anderes als die in menschliche Sprache gekleideten Formeln von Wahrheiten, die der menschliche Geist nicht zu erfassen vermag
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John Henry Newman |
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Lebendige Bewegungen gehen nicht von Komitees aus und grosse Ideen werden nicht durch einen Briefwechsel ausgearbeitet, selbst wenn das Porto noch so gunstig ist.
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John Henry Newman |