All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANAll men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIn 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 NEWMANLions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANEgotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANConscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThis is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTime hath a taming hand.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThere 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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANI shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLet us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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 NEWMANSuch is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANStuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANBy a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANGrowth is the only evidence of life.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFlagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN