John Henry Newman

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.

— John Henry Newman

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to…

— John Henry Newman

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

— John Henry Newman

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

— John Henry Newman

“The minds of young people are pliable and elastic, and easily accommodate themselves to any one they fall in with.”

— John Henry Newman

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

— John Henry Newman

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

— John Henry Newman

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault…

— 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

Growth is the only evidence of life.

— 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

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

Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in…

— John Henry Newman

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

— John Henry Newman

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

— John Henry Newman

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

— 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

Ability is sexless.

— 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

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

— John Henry Newman

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what…

— John Henry Newman

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

— John Henry Newman

Somehow I am necessary for God's purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his.

— John Henry Newman

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

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

— John Henry Newman