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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin? — John Henry Newman

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. — John Henry Newman

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language. — John Henry Newman

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile. — John Henry Newman

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion. — John Henry Newman

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself. — John Henry Newman

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

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ. — John Henry Newman

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector. — John Henry Newman

Growth is the only evidence of life. — John Henry Newman

Time hath a taming hand. — 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

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else. — John Henry Newman

Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal — John Henry Newman

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. — John Henry Newman

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. — John Henry Newman

To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often. — John Henry Newman

Man is emphatically self-made. — John Henry Newman

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men. — John Henry Newman

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart. — John Henry Newman

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it. — John Henry Newman

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God. — John Henry Newman

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

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. — John Henry Newman

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. — John Henry Newman

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

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. — John Henry Newman

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. — John Henry Newman

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people. — John Henry Newman

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason. — John Henry Newman

I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will: remember not past years. — John Henry Newman

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education. — John Henry Newman

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless — John Henry Newman

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. — John Henry Newman

A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine — John Henry Newman

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first. — John Henry Newman

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend. — John Henry Newman

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate. — John Henry Newman

Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post. — 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

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion. — John Henry Newman

Calculation never made a hero. — John Henry Newman

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. — John Henry Newman

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. — John Henry Newman

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator. — John Henry Newman

Great things are done by devotion to one idea. — John Henry Newman

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests. — John Henry Newman

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity. — John Henry Newman

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything. — John Henry Newman

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell. — John Henry Newman

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. — John Henry Newman

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person. — John Henry Newman

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances. — John Henry Newman

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

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. — John Henry Newman

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists. — John Henry Newman

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things. — John Henry Newman

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. — 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

Mary became the window of heaven, for God through her poured the True Light upon the world; the — John Henry Newman

Faith ventures and hazards ... counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice. — John Henry Newman

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards. — John Henry Newman

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. — John Henry Newman

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. — John Henry Newman

Divine Wisdom speaks not to the world, but to her own children. — John Henry Newman

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

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. — John Henry Newman

The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown. — John Henry Newman

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant. — John Henry Newman

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe. — John Henry Newman

To live is to change, and to change often is to become more perfect. — John Henry Newman

Somehow I am necessary for God's purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his. — John Henry Newman

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting. — John Henry Newman

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant. — 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

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. — 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

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. — John Henry Newman

Doing is at a far greater distance from intending to do than you at first sight imagine. Join — John Henry Newman

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight. — John Henry Newman

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. — John Henry Newman

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. — John Henry Newman

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. — John Henry Newman

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife. — John Henry Newman

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. — 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

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. — John Henry Newman

Ability is sexless. — John Henry Newman

The present is a text, and the past its interpretation. — John Henry Newman

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on. — John Henry Newman

Doctrine without its correspondent principle remains barren, if not lifeless, of which the Greek Church seems an instance; or — John Henry Newman

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven. — John Henry Newman

The world is content with setting right the surface of things. — John Henry Newman