John Henry Newman Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.

  John Henry Newman

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  John Henry Newman (1895). “Selection, Adapted to the Seasons of the Ecclesiastical Year: From the Parochial & Plain Sermons”

• Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

  John Henry Newman

  Beauty, Art, Nature

  John Henry Newman (1868). “Verses on Various Occasions”, p.15

• O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us still.... Thou art the heart of the Most High made man.... Thy Sacred Heart is the instrument and organ of Thy love. It did beat for us. It yearned for us. It ached for our salvation. It was on fire through zeal, that the glory of God might be manifested in and by us.... In worshipping thee I worship my incarnate God, my Emmanuel

  John Henry Newman

  Jesus, Art, Men

• Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.

  John Henry Newman

  Moving, Heart, Animal

  "Parochial and Plain Sermons".

• The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

  John Henry Newman

  Heart, Mean, Men

  John Henry Newman, Gerard Tracey (1999). “The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Tract 90 and the Jerusalem Bishopric, January 1841-April 1842”, p.555, Oxford University Press

• The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

  John Henry Newman

  Heart, People, Ears

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