38 John Henry Cardinal Newman Quotes

John Henry Cardinal Newman quotes

1. Time hath a taming hand.

2. Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home- Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet: I do not ask to see The distant scene,-one step enough for me.

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

4. May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last!

5. Growth is the only evidence of life.

6. Firmly I believe and truly God is Three, and God is One; And I next acknowledge duly Manhood taken by the Son.

7. It is thy very energy of thought Which keeps thee from thy God.

8. So living Nature, not dull Art, Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.

9. Ex umbris et imaginibus in vertitatem!

10. Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

11. After he had gone over the mansion, his entertainer asked him what he thought of the splendours it contained; and he in reply did full justice to the riches of its owner and the skill of its decorators, but he added, 'Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.'

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

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

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

17. To be deep in history is to cease to be protestant.

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

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

20. Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

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21. To live is to change, and to perfect life is to have changed often.

1. Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

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

3. It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

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

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

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

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

8. Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He is hidden in the brightness of the radiance which issues from the everlasting throne. He is in the very abyss of peace, where there is no voice of tumult or distress, but a deep stillness--stillness, that greatest and most awful of all goods which we can fancy; that most perfect of joys, the utter profound, ineffable tranquillity of the Divine Essence. He has entered into His rest. That is our home; here we are on a pilgrimage, and Christ calls us to His many mansions which He has prepared.

9. Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.

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

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

12. How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

13. It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

14. 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.

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

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

17. Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.