We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

- John Henry 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.

- 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

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

- John Henry Newman

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

- John Henry Newman

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

- John Henry Newman