I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
John Henry NewmanGod 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.
John Henry NewmanWith 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 NewmanIf 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 and to discard what is irrelevant.
John Henry Newman