John Henry Newman

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

“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.”

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

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

“The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.”

“Growth is the only evidence of life.”

“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.”