We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.” — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“The minds of young people are pliable and elastic, and easily accommodate themselves to any one they fall in with.” — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He is hidden… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, the conscience-killing tyranny of Rome! We have not far… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
