John Henry Newman Quotes

Best Quotes by John Henry Newman (Top 10)

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
John Henry Newman
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
John Henry Newman
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
John Henry Newman
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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 suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.
John Henry Newman
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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
Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry Newman
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
John Henry Newman
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
John Henry Newman
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
John Henry Newman
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Newman
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
John Henry Newman
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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 with it.
John Henry Newman
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
John Henry Newman
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
John Henry Newman