John Henry Newman Quotes

February 21, 1801 – August 11, 1890

Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English convert to Catholicism, later made a cardinal.

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

1864  Apologia pro Vita Sua,'Mr Kingsley's Method of Disputation'.

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

John Henry Newman
— 1831  'The Usurpations of Reason', collected in Oxford University Sermons (1843).

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Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead thou me on; The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead thou me on. Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me.

John Henry Newman
— 1833  'Lead, kindly Light'.

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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

John Henry Newman
— 1834  'Wisdom and Innocence', collected in Sermons Bearing on Subjects of the Day.

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

John Henry Newman
— 1848  Letter to MrsWilliam Froude, 27  Jun.

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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.

John Henry Newman
— 1865  The Dream of Gerontius. In The Month (published in book form in1866).

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Growth is the only evidence of life.

John Henry Newman
— John Henry Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864)

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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

John Henry Newman
— Chapter 1, Section 1, Part 7.

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A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.

John Henry Newman
— Discourse VIII, pt. 10.

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Growth is the only evidence of life .

John Henry Newman
— John Henry Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864)

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Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

John Henry Newman
— John Henry Newman, A Martyr Convert, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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