Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.
John Henry NewmanI shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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 NewmanNow what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.
John Henry Newman