It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
-
-
To 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 NEWMAN -
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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 -
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
This 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 NEWMAN -
Man is emphatically self-made.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
Time hath a taming hand.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN