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 NewmanGood is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
John Henry NewmanThere is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
John Henry NewmanIt is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.
John Henry Newman