Quotes by : John Henry Newman

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again -....

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good;....

Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under....

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members....

God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed....

Growth is the only evidence of life.

God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good.....

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

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

A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the....