John Henry Newman

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

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

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can_x000D_ give an account of it, who know so much of history that_x000D_ they can defend it.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

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

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.