John Henry Newman Quotes
Top 94 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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.
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people.
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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.
A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.
Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post.
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
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.
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
O loving wisdom of our God
when all was sin and shame,
a second Adam to the fight
and to the rescue came.
when all was sin and shame,
a second Adam to the fight
and to the rescue came.
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.
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
Nothing is more common in an age like this, when books abound, than to fancy that the gratification of a love of reading is real study.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
Its home is in the world; and to know what it is, we must seek it in the world, and hear the world's witness of it.
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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.
give an account of it, who know so much of history that
they can defend it.
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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.