Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only.… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can give an account of it, who know so much of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it,… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed,… — 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
