It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. — 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
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of… — 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
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
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through… — 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
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
