Best Quotes by John Henry Newman (Top 10)
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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
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
John Henry Newman
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
John Henry Newman
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
John Henry Newman
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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
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
John Henry Newman
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Newman
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry Newman
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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
John Henry Newman
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
John Henry Newman
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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
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Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
John Henry Newman
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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