I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards. - John Henry Newman
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe. - 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
Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal - John Henry Newman
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. - John Henry Newman
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people. - John Henry Newman
Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us. - John Henry Newman