Quotes from John Henry Cardinal Newman

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Calculation never made a hero.

Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

Faith is the result of the act of the will following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.