Quote

Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm next, that they have no power whatever of resistance it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.

John Henry Newman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Henry Newman
Age: 89 †
Born: 1801
Born: February 21
Died: 1890
Died: August 11
Anglican Priest
Catholic Priest
Hymnwriter
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Priest
Theologian
University Teacher
London
England
Cardinal Newman
Blessed John Henry Newman
Catholicus
John Henry
Cardinal Newman
Cardinal John Henry Newman
Saint John Newman
Much
Moving
Victim
Victims
Makes
Harm
Touching
Next
Hearts
Shown
Power
Especially
Moves
Sickens
Firsts
Animal
Cruelty
Satanic
First
Suffering
Tyranny
Sufferings
Done
Poor
Resistance
Brutes
Heart
Whatever
Suppose
Cowardice

More quotes by John Henry Newman

Image
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
John Henry Newman
Image
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
John Henry Newman
Image
Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
John Henry Newman
Image
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
John Henry Newman
Image
Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
John Henry Newman
Image
Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
John Henry Newman
Image
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
Image
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
John Henry Newman
Image
How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
John Henry Newman
Image
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
John Henry Newman
Image
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
John Henry Newman
Image
All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
John Henry Newman
Image
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
John Henry Newman
Image
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
John Henry Newman
Image
After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.
John Henry Newman
Image
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.
John Henry Newman
Image
To discover and to teach are distinct functions they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
John Henry Newman
Image
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
John Henry Newman
Image
Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
John Henry Newman
Image
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one style is a thinking out into language.
John Henry Newman