Cardinal Newman

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Burns & Oates, 1907 - 133 páginas
 

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Página 112 - When we are all at rest and have no doubts, and — at least practically, not to say doctrinally — hold the Holy Father to be infallible...
Página 68 - FROM the time that I became a Catholic, of course I have no further history of my religious opinions to narrate. In saying this, I do not mean to say that my mind has been idle, or that I have given up thinking on theological subjects ; but that I have had no variations to record, and have had no anxiety of heart whatever. I have been in perfect peace and contentment; I never have had one doubt.
Página 34 - I was aching to get home; yet for want of a vessel I was kept at Palermo for three weeks. I began to visit the churches, and they calmed my impatience, though I did not attend any services.
Página 111 - Conscience is not a longsighted selfishness, nor a desire to be consistent with oneself; but it is a messenger from Him, who, both in nature and in grace, speaks to us behind a veil, and teaches and rules us by His representatives.
Página 100 - Ryder? who have been so faithful to me ; who have been so sensitive of my needs ; who have been so indulgent to my failings ; who have carried me through so many trials ; who have grudged no sacrifice, if I asked for it ; who have been so cheerful under discouragements of my causing ; who have done so many good works, and let me have the credit of them ; — with whom I have lived so long, with whom I hope to die.
Página 34 - Mr. Keble preached the Assize Sermon in the University Pulpit. It was published under the title of "National Apostasy." I have ever considered and kept the day, as the start of the religious movement of 183.'3, CHAPTER II.
Página 79 - Mothers of families," he seems to say, "gentle maidens, innocent children, look at me, for I am worth looking at. You do not see such a sight every day. Can any Church live over the imputation of such a production as I am? I have been a Roman priest and a hypocrite; I have been a profligate under a cowl...
Página 4 - Of promise quenched in turn, till all our sky was dark. Death came and went : that so thy image might Our yearning hearts possess, Associate with all pleasant thoughts, and bright With youth and loveliness ; Sorrow can claim, Mary, nor lot nor part in thy soft soothing name.
Página 42 - The forehead, the shape of the ears and nose, were almost the same. The lines of the mouth were very peculiar, and I should say exactly the same. I have often thought of the resemblance, and believed that it extended to the temperament. In both there was an original force of character which refused to be moulded by circumstances, which was to make its own way, and become a power in the world...
Página 20 - Trinity, which was so dear to me, and which held on its foundation so many who had been kind to me both when I was a boy, and all through my Oxford life. Trinity had never been unkind to me. There used to be much snapdragon growing on the walls opposite my freshman's rooms there ; and 1 had for years taken it as the emblem of my own perpetual residence, even unto death, in my University.

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