John Henry Newman Quotes

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good...

Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal

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

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again ...

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

Lead kindly Light amid the encircling gloom Lead Thou me on! The night is dark and I am far from...

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We ...

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matter...

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except ...

Such is the state of things in England, and it is well that it should be realised by all of us; but ...

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good...

The night is dark and I am far from home.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

If then the power of speech is as great as any that can be named,—if the origin of language is by ma...

God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not co...

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt a...

Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, th...

Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but und...

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good m...

A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising th...

And this is the sense of the word "grammar" which our inaccurate student detests, and this is the se...