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• To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

  John Henry Newman

  Science, Found, Function

  On the Scope and Nature of University Education Preface

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• Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.

  John Henry Newman

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

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• This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.

  John Henry Newman

  Party, Men, Judging

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'History of My Religious Opinions from 1833 to 1839'

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• Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

  John Henry Newman

  Decision, Slender, Evidence

  John Henry Newman (1844). “Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford”, p.290, Aeterna Press

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• 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.

  John Henry Newman

  War, Law, Done

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'Mr Kingsley's Method of Disputation'

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• If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

  John Henry Newman

  Creeps, Certainty, Soar

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• It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.

  John Henry Newman

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  John Henry Newman (1895). “Selection, Adapted to the Seasons of the Ecclesiastical Year: From the Parochial & Plain Sermons”

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• Calculation never made a hero.

  John Henry Newman

  Hero, Made, Calculations

  John Henry Newman (1846). “An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine”, p.329

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• With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

  John Henry Newman

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

  John Henry Newman (1873). “Poetry with reference to Aristotle's poetics. Introduction of rationalistic principles into revealed religion. Fall of La Mennais. Palmer's view of faith and unity. Theology of St. Ignatius. Prospects of the Anglican Church. The Anglo-American Church. Selina, Countess of Huntingdon”, p.23

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• 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

  Dream, Ideas, Religion

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'History of My Religious Opinions from 1833 to 1839'

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• Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

  John Henry Newman

  Doubt, Christianity, Difficulty

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'Position of my Mind since 1845'

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• Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.

  John Henry Newman

  Angel, Purpose, Archangel

  "John Henry Newman: Spiritual Writings".

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• Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.

  John Henry Newman

  Art, Giving, Information

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• I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

  John Henry Newman

  Theory Of Evolution, Almighty, Inconsistent

  John Henry Newman, Ian Turnbull Ker, Thomas Gornall, Gerard Tracey, Francis J. McGrath (1961). “Letters and Diaries: The controversy with Gladstone, Jan. 1874-Dec. 1875”

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• Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.

  John Henry Newman

  Beautiful, Angel, Light

  John Henry Newman (2016). “Apologia pro Vita Sua”, p.100, John Henry Newman

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• All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

  John Henry Newman

  Men, Giving, Perspective

  John Henry Newman (1843). “Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford”, p.254

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• Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.

  John Henry Newman

  Thinking, Hands, Church

  John Henry Newman (2002). “Prayers, Verses, and Devotions”, p.337, Ignatius Press

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• Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

  John Henry Newman

  Health, Blessing, Mind

  John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.36, Ignatius Press

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• I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can
  give an account of it, who know so much of history that
  they can defend it.

  John Henry Newman

  Giving, Want, Creeds

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• What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?

  John Henry Newman

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

  John Henry Newman (1865). “History of My Religious Opinions”, p.118

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• How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

  John Henry Newman

  Teacher, Anxiety, Details

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.119, Aeterna Press

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• A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.

  John Henry Newman

  Knowledge, Science, Intellectual

  John Henry Newman (1852). “Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin”, p.144

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

  John Henry Newman

  World, Surface, Miscellaneous

  John Henry Newman (1859). “The Scope and Nature of University Education ... Second Edition”, p.296

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• 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.

  John Henry Newman

  Religious, Selfish, Rewards

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• Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

  John Henry Newman

  Knowledge, Mind, Rewards

  John Henry Newman (1873). “The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: I. In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin ; [II] In Occasional Lectures and Essays Addressed to the Members of the Catholic University”, p.103

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