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.”

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

“Growth is the only evidence of life.”

“Lead, Kindly Light, amidst the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on!”

“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”

“Cor ad cor loquitur.”

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

“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.”

“Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.”

“Calculation never made a hero.”

“To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.”

“Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.”

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

“Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.”

“The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.”

“A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.”

“Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.”

“Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem.”