John Henry Newman

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to…

— John Henry Newman

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

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

— John Henry Newman

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things…

— John Henry Newman

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

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never…

— John Henry Newman

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

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

— John Henry Newman

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

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

— John Henry Newman

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

— John Henry Newman

“From My Life's Work by Cardinal Newman God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work…

— John Henry Newman

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same…

— John Henry Newman

Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this:…

— John Henry Newman

“From shadows and symbols into the truth.”

— John Henry Newman

“Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes, The art of syren choirs; Hush the seductive voice that floats Across the trembling wires. Music's…

— John Henry Newman

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

— John Henry Newman

Man is emphatically self-made.

— John Henry Newman

How can we feel our need of His help, or our dependence on Him, or our debt to Him, or the nature…

— John Henry Newman

“The refutation and remedy of errors cannot precede their rise; and thus the fact of false developments or corruptions involves the correspondent…

— John Henry Newman

I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may…

— John Henry Newman

“The heart is a secret with its Maker; no one on earth can hope to get at it or to touch it.”

— John Henry Newman

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

Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this…

— John Henry Newman

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

— John Henry Newman