John Henry Newman

Time hath a taming hand.

— John Henry Newman

Ability is sexless.

— John Henry Newman

Calculation never made a hero.

— John Henry Newman

Man is emphatically self-made.

— John Henry Newman

Growth is the only evidence of life.

— John Henry Newman

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

— John Henry Newman

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

— John Henry Newman

“To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.”

— John Henry Newman

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

— John Henry Newman

The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.

— John Henry Newman

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

— John Henry Newman

“To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often.”

— John Henry Newman

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

— 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

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

— John Henry Newman

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise…

— John Henry Newman

“Mary became the window of heaven, for God through her poured the True Light upon the world; the”

— John Henry Newman

“Here below to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.”

— 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…

— John Henry Newman

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

— John Henry Newman

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.

— John Henry Newman

There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the…

— John Henry Newman

What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that…

— John Henry Newman

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

— John Henry Newman

The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our…

— John Henry Newman

“Of all points of faith, the being of a God is, to my own apprehension, encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne…

— John Henry Newman

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must…

— John Henry Newman

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by…

— John Henry Newman

“When the Apostles were taken away, Christianity did not at once break into portions; yet separate localities might begin to be the…

— John Henry Newman

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

— John Henry Newman

A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on…

— John Henry Newman

Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith…

— John Henry Newman

God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed…

— John Henry Newman

“Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, the conscience-killing tyranny of Rome! We have…

— John Henry Newman

“God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed…

— John Henry Newman

O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us still… Thou…

— John Henry Newman

Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He…

— John Henry Newman

Go down again - I dwell among the people.

— John Henry Newman

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

— John Henry Newman

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

— John Henry Newman