Cardinal Newman Quotes

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe. - Cardinal Newman

We all suffer for each other, and gain by each other's suffering; for man never stands alone here, though he will stand alone hereafter; but here is he is a social being, and goes forward to his long home as one of a large company. - Cardinal Newman

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. - Cardinal Newman

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. - Cardinal Newman

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. - Cardinal Newman

It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances. - Cardinal Newman

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. - Cardinal Newman

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. - Cardinal Newman

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. - Cardinal Newman

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