Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
—John Henry Newman
Topics: Carpe-diem, Anxiety, Fear
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
—John Henry Newman
Topics: Manners
In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often.
—John Henry Newman
Topics: Change
Growth is the only evidence of life.
—John Henry Newman
Topics: Change, Growth
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
—John Henry Newman
Faith … acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
—John Henry Newman
Topics: Faith, Doubt, Decisions, Uncertainty, Belief
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
—John Henry Newman
Topics: Perfection, Risk-taking
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
—John Henry Newman
Topics: Difficulty, Doubt
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable … we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.
—John Henry Newman
Topics: Doubt, Risk-taking, Uncertainty
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
—John Henry Newman
Topics: Danger, Risk
Calculation never made a hero.
—John Henry Newman
Topics: Risk
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
—John Henry Newman
Topics: Friends and Friendship
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
—John Henry Newman
Topics: Memory
Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.
—John Henry Newman
Topics: Courage
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
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