Zitate von John Henry Newman

„Leben heißt sich wandeln und vollkommen sein heißt, sich oft gewandelt zu haben.“

—  John Henry Newman

An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, 1845, Chapter 1, Section 1, Part 7, http://www.newmanreader.org http://www.newmanreader.org/works/development/chapter1.html.
Original engl.: "[...] to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

„Ich habe einen Platz in Gottes Plan, auf Gottes Erde, den kein anderer hat.“

—  John Henry Newman

Meditations and Devotions, Part III, Meditations on Christian Doctrine, March 7, 1848 http://www.newmanreader.org http://www.newmanreader.org/works/meditations/meditations9.html.
Original engl.: "I have a place in God's counsels, in God's world, which no one else has."

„Ein gutes Gedächtnis offenbart noch kein Genie, so wie ein Wörterbuch keine Literatur ist.“

—  John Henry Newman

The Idea of a University, 1873, Part 1, Discourse VI.5, http://www.newmanreader.org http://www.newmanreader.org/works/idea/discourse6.html.
Original engl.: "[...] a great memory [...] does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called a grammar."

„Aus Schatten und Bildern zur Wahrheit.“

—  John Henry Newman

Grabinschrift seines Grabes bei Radnal, Birmingham, siehe auch: Johannes John: Reclams Zitaten-Lexikon, 2014, Abschnitt 23 bei Wahrheit.
Original lat.: "Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem."

„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, buch 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

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

„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)

„After he had gone over the mansion, his entertainer asked him what he thought of the splendours it contained; and he in reply did full justice to the riches of its owner and the skill of its decorators, but he added, "Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists."“

—  John Henry Newman

Lecture I, Section 1.
Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (1851)

„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).

„It is thy very energy of thought
Which keeps thee from thy God.“

—  John Henry Newman

The Dream of Gerontius http://www.ccel.org/n/newman/gerontius/gerontius.htm, Pt. III (1866).

„I do not shrink from uttering my firm conviction that it would be a gain to the country were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion than at present it shows itself to be.“

—  John Henry Newman

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

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

—  John Henry Newman

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