Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

John Henry Newman's Popular Quotes

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

I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity m…

- John Henry Newman

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

- John Henry Newman

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

- John Henry Newman

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

- John Henry Newman

May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and…

- John Henry Newman

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

- 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

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall d…

- John Henry Newman