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John Henry Newman Quotes

1801–1890 England

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Also known as: Cardinal Newman, John H. Newman, John Henry Cardinal Newman, Newman, John Henry, Newman, John Henry Cardinal

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In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845)

Good is never done except at the expense of those who do it: truth is never enforced except at the sacrifice of its propounders.

Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (1851)

Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.

Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (1851)

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

The Idea of a University (1873)

Where good and ill together blent,
Wage an undying strife.

As I have already said, there are but two alternatives, the way to Rome, and the way to Atheism.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

Essays Critical and Historical (1871)

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Reason is God's gift; but so are the passions.

Parochial and Plain Sermons (1834)

Sin can read sin, but dimly scans high grace.

Isaac (1833)

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

The Idea of a University (1873)

Whatever be historical Christianity, it is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.

An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845)

From shadows and symbols into the truth!

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

The Idea of a University (1873)

A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.

The Idea of a University (1873)

And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

Knowledge is capable of being its own end. Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

The Idea of a University (1873)

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

The Idea of a University (1873)

There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the breast, when struggling passions lower;
Touch'd by its influence, in the soul arise
Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

Solitude (1818)

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