John Henry NewmanHealth of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ✨ John Henry Newman (1997). Parochial and Plain Sermons, p.36, Ignatius Press373Thought
John Henry NewmanFrom the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, a… ▶341ThoughtTime
John Henry NewmanO most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us still.... Thou art the heart of the Most High made man.... Thy Sacred … ▶341Love
John Henry NewmanThe 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… ▶341Hope
John Henry NewmanAnd with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile. ✨ John Henry Newman (1837). Lyra apostolica, p.29352Love
John Henry NewmanHow many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts. ✨ Blessed John Hen… ▶374LifeThought
John Henry NewmanTo 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 (… ▶374Death
John Henry NewmanI want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and… ▶342Time
John Henry NewmanGod 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 … ▶342Sadness
John Henry NewmanWhen you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.376Time
John Henry NewmanYou must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.323LifeSadnessThought
John Henry NewmanThe love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men. ✨ John Henry Newman (2012). John Henry Newman: Spiritual Writings, p.41, Orbis Book… ▶379LoveReading
John Henry NewmanTo the irreligious person heaven would be hell.314Time
John Henry NewmanA great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.281ReadingThought
John Henry NewmanDear 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 shinin… ▶3710Love
John Henry NewmanLearn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven. ✨ John Henry Newman (1837). Lyra apostolica, p.98336Philosophy
John Henry NewmanWith Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event. ✨ John Henry Newman (1873). … ▶3710HopePhilosophy
John Henry NewmanGod has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. ✨ John Henry Newman (2002). Pr… ▶337Love
John Henry NewmanThe heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by descriptio… ▶348DeathLoveTruth
John Henry NewmanIt is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. ✨ 'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'Mr Kingsley's Method of Disputation'271Death
John Henry NewmanBy a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight. ✨ John Henry Newman (2002). Prayers, Verses, and Devotions, p.127, Ignat… ▶272Love
John Henry NewmanGood 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.261ReadingTruth
John Henry NewmanEvil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. ✨ John Henry Newman, Dave Armstrong (2012). The Quot… ▶284Thought
John Henry NewmanPurity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity. ✨ John Henry Newman, James Tolhurst (1849). Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations, p.63, Grace… ▶317Love
John Henry NewmanLions would have fared better, had lions been the artists. ✨ John Henry Newman (1857). Lectures on the present position of Catholics in England: adressed to the brothers of … ▶3410Time
John Henry NewmanThought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language. ✨ Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press… ▶285Thought
John Henry NewmanGrowth is the only evidence of life. ✨ John Henry Newman (2016). Apologia pro Vita Sua, p.67, John Henry Newman264Life
John Henry NewmanSomehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his. ✨ John Henry Newman: Spiritual Writings.275Reflection
John Henry NewmanLife passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.… ▶221LifeTruth
John Henry NewmanSuch is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward. ✨ John Henry Newman (1873). The Idea of a University Defined… ▶3110HumanityThought
