Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLiving Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANAnd with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTo discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIt is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTime hath a taming hand.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMost people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThere 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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANEvery breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANYou must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMay 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 a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFrom the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANGrowth is the only evidence of life.
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 NEWMANThe love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN