I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANI shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLife passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANConscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLet us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANA science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANWhen you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLearn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANGrowth is the only evidence of life.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANCruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLet us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANAll men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLet us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFaith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANWe should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLiterature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN