Quotes from John Henry Newman

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.

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

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

The Via Media has slept in libraries; it is a substitute of infancy for manhood.

Non temere che la vita giunga a una fine, temi piuttosto che non abbia mai inizio.

Catholicism is a deep matter. You cannot take it up in a teacup" [..] "You must consent to think.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The present is a text, and the past its interpretation.

Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal

we must determine whether on the one hand Christianity is still to represent to us a definite teaching from above, or whether on the other its utterances have been from time to time so strangely at variance, that we are necessarily thrown back on our own judgment individually to determine, what the revelation of God is, or rather if in fact there is, or has been, any revelation at all.

Take me away, and in the lowest deep There let me be...

Again, Arius asserted that the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity was not able to comprehend the First, whereas Eunomius's characteristic tenet was that all men could comprehend God as fully as the Son comprehended Him Himself; yet no one can doubt that Eunomianism was a true development, not a corruption of Arianism.

If unity lies in the Apostolical succession, an act of schism is from the nature of the case impossible; for as no one can reverse his parentage, so no Church can undo the fact that its clergy have come by lineal descent from the Apostles. Either there is no such sin as schism, or unity does not lie in the Episcopal form or in the Episcopal ordination.

And when St. Cyril would give a rule to his crowd of Catechumens, If ever thou art sojourning in any city, he says, inquire not simply where the Lord's house is, (for the sects of the profane also make an attempt to call their own dens houses of the Lord,) nor merely where the Church is, but where is the Catholic Church. For this is the peculiar name of this Holy Body, the Mother of us all, which is the Spouse of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Kolik malých Å¡tÄ›stí jsem ztratil hledáním velkého Å¡tÄ›stí.

Los movimientos vivos no nacen de comisiones, ni las grandes ideas operan por correo

In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. I

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?