Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANPurity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFaith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANCruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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 NEWMANWhen you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTo holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThe attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThe love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIt is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTo take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMan is emphatically self-made.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFaith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANAll that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANEvil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIf we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThe reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN