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John Henry Newman was an influential British theologian, philosopher, and writer, known for his contributions to religious philosophy, moral philosophy, and literary criticism. He was born on February 21, 1801, and died on August 11, 1890. Newman was educated at Oxford University and later became a Catholic priest, holding several important positions in the church in Britain and Ireland.

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Famous John Henry Newman Quotes

“It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.”

People Ifs Way Should Firsts Dream Suffering Trouble Sacrifice Truth Is Blessing Spread Wide Trials Accompany

Book:Sermons Preached on Various Occasions

Source: Sermons Preached on Various Occasions

“We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.”

Ifs Knows Mind Ignorant

Book:Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects

Source: Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects

“How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?”

Ifs Sin Havens Depth

Author:John Henry Newman

“God 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; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.”

Ifs Knows May Persons Next Work My Own Calling Angel Connections Committed Missions Chains This Life Links Preacher Commandments Definite Great Work

Author:John Henry Newman

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

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Author:John Henry Newman

“Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.”

Ifs Religious Pleasure Virtue Highest Gains Rewards Sake Selfish Truest

Author: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.”

Ifs Certainty Soar Creeps

Author:John Henry Newman

“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.”

Ifs World Love Strong Powerful This World Genius Hero True Love Dominion Amiable

Book:Rise and Progress of Universities And, Benedictine Essays

Source: Rise and Progress of Universities And, Benedictine Essays

“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”

Ifs Firsts Stills Drink Please Conscience Pope Primacy

Author:John Henry Newman

“If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.”

Ifs Men Giving Ends Courses Force Views Opinion Teach Clear Members Training Conscious University Practicals Developing Judgement Irrelevant Eloquence If Then

Author:John Henry Newman

“Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.”

Ifs Mind Body Health Bears Blessing Wellness Nutrition Mind And Body Health And Wellness Natural Health Nutrition And Exercise

Book:Parochial and Plain Sermons

Source: Parochial and Plain Sermons

“Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.”

Ifs Mind Humans Kind Knowledge Constitution Rewards Human Mind

Book:The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: I. In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin ; [II] In Occasional Lectures and Essays Addressed to the Members of the Catholic University

Source: The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: I. In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin ; [II] In Occasional Lectures and Essays Addressed to the Members of the Catholic University

“Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.”

Ifs Humans Religious Animal Cruelty God Love Vegetarian Animal Cruelty

Author:John Henry Newman

“God 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 ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.”

Ifs Knows May Doe Spiritual Sorrow Committed Missions Vain Sickness Definite Perplexity

Author:John Henry Newman

“It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.”