John Henry Newman Quotes
It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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.
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
With 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.
Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
