Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
John Henry Newman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Henry Newman
Age: 89 †
Born: 1801
Born: February 21
Died: 1890
Died: August 11
Anglican Priest
Catholic Priest
Hymnwriter
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Priest
Theologian
University Teacher
London
England
Cardinal Newman
Blessed John Henry Newman
Catholicus
John Henry
Cardinal Newman
Cardinal John Henry Newman
Saint John Newman
True
Slow
Suddenly
Roots
Spring
Withers
Intellectual
Counterfeit
Growth
Planted
Religion
Springs
Difficult
Root
More quotes by John Henry Newman
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
John Henry Newman
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
John Henry Newman
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
John Henry Newman
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one style is a thinking out into language.
John Henry Newman
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
John Henry Newman
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
John Henry Newman
Time hath a taming hand.
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
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
With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.
John Henry Newman
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.
John Henry Newman
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
John Henry Newman
Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
John Henry Newman
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
John Henry Newman
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
John Henry Newman
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
John Henry Newman
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
John Henry Newman
To discover and to teach are distinct functions they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
John Henry Newman
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
John Henry Newman
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
John Henry Newman
