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Quotes from John Henry Newman

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
~ John Henry Newman
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
~ John Henry Newman
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
~ John Henry Newman
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
~ John Henry Newman
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
~ John Henry Newman
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.
~ John Henry Newman
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
~ John Henry Newman
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
~ John Henry Newman
Man is emphatically self-made.
~ John Henry Newman
The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
~ John Henry Newman
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
~ John Henry Newman
God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
~ John Henry Newman
Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
~ John Henry Newman
It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
~ John Henry Newman
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
~ John Henry Newman
Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
~ John Henry Newman
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
~ John Henry Newman
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
~ John Henry Newman
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.
~ John Henry Newman
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
~ John Henry Newman
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
~ John Henry Newman
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
~ John Henry Newman
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
~ John Henry Newman
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
~ John Henry Newman