John Henry Newman
Quotes by 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
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
— John Henry Newman
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
— John Henry Newman
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.
— John Henry Newman
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
— 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