175 Quotes by John Henry Newman

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Let them be fierce with you who have no experience of the difficulty with which error is discriminated from truth, and the way of life is found amid the illusions of the world.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life.

God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.