John Henry Newman Religious Quotations

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.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.