175 Quotes by John Henry Newman

What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

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.

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.

God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.