John Henry Newman Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

  John Henry Newman

  Self Esteem, Giving, Needs

• There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.

  John Henry Newman

  Perseverance, Taken, Humble

  John Henry Newman (1907). “Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman”, Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton, Mifflin [c1907]

• I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

  John Henry Newman

  Men, Giving, Arrogant

  John Henry Newman (2000). “Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England: Addressed to the Brothers of the Oratory in the Summer of 1851”, p.390, Gracewing Publishing

• If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.

  John Henry Newman

  Men, Views, Giving

• May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

  John Henry Newman

  Long, Giving, Support

  'Wisdom and Innocence' (19 February 1843), in 'Sermons Bearing on Subjects of the Day' (1843) no. 20

• Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.

  John Henry Newman

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

• Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.

  John Henry Newman

  Art, Giving, Information

• God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.

  John Henry Newman

  Mean, Men, Names

  John Henry Newman (1900). “The Works of Cardinal Newman”

• I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can
  give an account of it, who know so much of history that
  they can defend it.

  John Henry Newman

  Giving, Want, Creeds

• All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

  John Henry Newman

  Men, Giving, Perspective

  John Henry Newman (1843). “Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford”, p.254

• Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

  John Henry Newman

  Giving, Inspire, Religion

  John Henry Newman (1852). “Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin”, p.296

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