175 Quotes by John Henry Newman

Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal

It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples’ feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation.

From shadows and symbols into the truth.

And when St. Cyril would give a rule to his crowd of Catechumens, "If ever thou art sojourning in any city," he says, "inquire not simply where the Lord's house is, (for the sects of the profane also make an attempt to call their own dens houses of the Lord,) nor merely where the Church is, but where is the Catholic Church. For this is the peculiar name of this Holy Body, the Mother of us all, which is the Spouse of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

The profession and the developments of a doctrine are according to the emergency of the time, and silence at a certain period implies, not that it was not then held, but that it was not questioned.

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.