We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
John Henry Newman

Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry Newman

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
John Henry Newman

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
John Henry 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.
John Henry Newman

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
John Henry Newman

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
John Henry 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.
John Henry Newman