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Theologe, Kardinal, zählt zu den Wegbereitern eines vor dem Wissenshorizont der Moderne verantworteten Katholizismus, wurde am 19. September 2010 von Papst Benedikt XVI. selig gesprochen (England, 1801 - 1890).

John Henry Newman · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

John Henry Newman wäre heute 223 Jahre, 2 Monate, 8 Tage oder 81.517 Tage alt.

Geboren am 21.02.1801 in London
Gestorben am 11.08.1890 in Birmingham
Sternzeichen: ♓ Fische

• She[the Catholic Church] holds that it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful untruth . . . or steal one poor farthing without excuse.

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• Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

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• The all-corroding, all-dissolving scepticism of the intellect in religious enquiries.

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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 . . . He has attempted (as I may call it) to poison the wells.

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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.

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

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• To live means to change; to be perfect means to have changed often.

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• Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

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• We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

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• We take up a book at one time, and see nothing in it; at another, it is full of weighty remarks and precious thoughts.

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• When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless.

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• Vivre veut dire changer; être parfait veut dire s'être changé souvent.
  • Lucien Giordani spricht . . .

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