The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANEgotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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.
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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In 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.
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The 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.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Every 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.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN