Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANReligion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
-
-
Growth is the only evidence of life.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
Let 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 NEWMAN -
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
Let 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 NEWMAN -
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
All 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 NEWMAN -
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
Man is emphatically self-made.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN






