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 NewmanYou must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
John Henry NewmanEgotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
John Henry NewmanIt is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
John Henry NewmanA cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet sweetly; it was the Blessed Sacrament - it was the Lord Incarnate who was on the altar, who had come to visit and bless his people. It was the Great Presence, which makes a Catholic Church different from every other place in the world; which makes it, as no other place can be - holy.
John Henry Newman