John Henry Newman Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• 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.

  John Henry Newman

  Dream, Ideas, Religion

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'History of My Religious Opinions from 1833 to 1839'

• Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

  John Henry Newman

  Christian, Prayer, Fear

• 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

• True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

  John Henry Newman

  Spring, Roots, Intellectual

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.165, Aeterna Press

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