“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
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself. — 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in… — 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
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
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached,… — 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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
“In morals, as in physics, the stream cannot rise higher than its source. Christianity raises men from earth, for it comes from… — 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
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice. — 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
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
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
