John Henry Newman

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

"I do not shrink from uttering my firm conviction that it would be a gain to the country were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion than at present it shows itself to be."

"Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant."

"Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another."

"We attain to heaven by using this world well, though it is to pass away; we perfect our nature, not by undoing it, but by adding to it what is more than nature, and directing it towards aims higher than its own."

"Christian! hence learn to do thy part, And leave the rest to Heaven."