John Henry Newman Quotes

English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)

Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English convert to Catholicism, later made a cardinal.

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Alternative Names: Cardinal Newman • Blessed John Henry Newman • Catholicus • John Henry, Cardinal Newman • Cardinal John Henry Newman • Saint John Newman • John H. Newman

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Christian! hence learn to do thy part,
And leave the rest to Heaven.

Sin can read sin, but dimly scans high grace.

Time hath a taming hand.

Men live after their death—they live not only in their writings or their chronicled history, but still more in that ἄγραφος μνήμη exhibited in a school of pupils who trace their moral parentage to them.

There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the breast, when struggling passions lower;
Touch'd by its influence, in the soul arise
Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.