Tag: John Henry Newman

Time hath a taming hand.

John Henry Newman

Hitherto the civil Power has been Christian. Even in countries separated from the Church, as in my own, the dictum was in force, when I was young, that: “Christianity was the law of the land”. Now, every where that goodly framework of society which is the creation of Christianity is throwing off Christianity. The dictum to which I have referred, with a hundred others which followed upon it, is gone, or is going every where; and, by the end of the century, unless the Almighty interferes, it will be forgotten. Hitherto, it has been considered that Religion alone, with its supernatural sanctions, was strong enough to secure submission of the masses of our population to law and order; now the Philosophers and Politicians are bent on satisfying this problem without the aid of Christianity.

John Henry Newman

Reason is God’s gift; but so are the passions.

John Henry Newman

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

John Henry Newman

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

John Henry Newman