John Henry Newman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
John Henry Newman quotes and sayings page 2 (clergyman). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 30 we have.
“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.”
“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”
“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.”
“Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.”
“Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.”
“From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.”
“If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.”
“It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.”
“It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.”
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