Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...think no one will deny that he was the greatest expresser the world has ever seen. He remains to this time the world's greatest achievement. To adapt a phase of Sir Richard Stelle's, we may say, that to know Shakespeare is a liberal education - a revelation of truth. The magic of his genius will confer a blessing upon the young and old alike, and you will find in his works whatever you seek - provided you are searching for truth...
...same intense regard for and dependence upon personality that turned Newman's eyes upon himself that made his religion subjective and his thought self-conscious. Indeed it has been made a charge against him that he had too little affection for truth in the abstract. His grasp of external fact was always feeble in comparison to his perception of his own inner life. His religion always looked for its ultimate sanction to his own consciousness. This extreme subjectivity manifests itself further in a disposition to doubt the reality of the outward aspects of nature. His childish idealism took form...
...personality of Newman that is significant. As in his religious thought it constituted his ultimate sanction, so it will survive, when the creeds in which it wrought itself out have faded away. In one of the University sermons Newman pictures the personal influence of a teacher of truth...
Jesus taught the loftiest moral and religious truth, and embodied this in a life which gave it power over the hearts and lives of men. We have received from Him our highest thought of religion and of duty, and this thought has come to us warm and living through his personality. If religion and duty are of more vital importance to us than anything beside, then we owe to Him such a debt as we owe to no other...
...religion and morality the world might seem to have advanced far beyond the teaching of Jesus. The science of Political Economy has arisen, and with it we sometimes think there has originated an entirely new kind of charity. But charity and religion when once their highest truth has been uttered remain simple and unchangeable. The world changes and these elements have to penetrate new facts and new conditions with their power. The two commandments in which Jesus summed up the teaching of the law, love to God and love to man remain today the final utterances of religion and morality...