John Henry Newman Quotes
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To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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It is thy very energy of thoughtWhich keeps thee from thy God.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem!
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Calculation never made a hero.
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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And with the morn those angel faces smileWhich I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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.