Quotes from John Henry Newman
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
— John Henry Newman
How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
— John Henry Newman
He can no longer have God for a Father, who has not the Church for a Mother.
— John Henry Newman
And when St. Cyril would give a rule to his crowd of Catechumens, If ever thou art sojourning in any city, he says, inquire not simply where the Lord's house is, (for the sects of the profane also make an attempt to call their own dens houses of the Lord,) nor merely where the Church is, but where is the Catholic Church. For this is the peculiar name of this Holy Body, the Mother of us all, which is the Spouse of our Lord Jesus Christ.
— John Henry Newman
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
— John Henry Newman
In so many multifarious ways, John Henry Newman has been a blessing to the Church. How appropriate, therefore, that the Church has now conferred a great blessing upon Newman by raising him to the altar. The beatified Newman is in the Presence of the Beatific Vision. He has achieved the only goal for which life is worth living. As such, praise should make way for prayers. Blessed John Henry Newman, historian, theologian, philosopher, and poet, pray for us.
— John Henry Newman
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
— John Henry Newman
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
— John Henry Newman
Judaism, again, was rejected when it rejected the Messiah.
— John Henry Newman
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
— John Henry Newman
It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
— John Henry Newman
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
— John Henry Newman