John Henry Newman Quotes

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

  John Henry Newman

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

  John Henry Newman

• If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

  John Henry Newman

• If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

  John Henry Newman

• Growth is the only evidence of life.

  John Henry Newman

  Topics in Life

• Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.

  John Henry Newman

• Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

  John Henry Newman

• Calculation never made a hero.

  John Henry Newman

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

  John Henry Newman

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

  John Henry Newman

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

  John Henry Newman

  Topics in Wisdom

• In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

  John Henry Newman

  Topics in Love

• The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

  John Henry Newman

  Topics in Friendship, Love

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

  John Henry Newman

• From 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, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

  John Henry Newman

  Topics in Age

John Henry Newman (35)

Birth:	21st February, 1801
Death:	11th August, 1890
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Priest, Theologian

About

John Henry Newman was born in London, England. He was an English priest, poet, novelist, philosopher, theologian and later a Catholic cardinal who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford University. Originally an evangelical Oxford University academic and priest in the Church of England, he then became drawn to the high-church tradition of Anglicanism. He was quickly ordained as a priest and continued as an influential religious leader, based in Birmingham. He wrote several books include: Tracts for the Times, The Arians of the fourth century, Loss and Gain (novel), The Idea of a University, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Grammar of Assent, The Dream of Gerontius (poem), Meditations and devotions, and Mary, the Second Eve.

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