John Henry Newman Quotes


God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.


Citations

Newman, John Henry. Meditations and Devotions of the Late Cardinal Newman. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893, p. 401.

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John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman
  • Born: February 21, 1801
  • Died: August 11, 1890
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Clergyman

John Henry Newman was an English theologian and poet, first an Anglican priest and later a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s, and was canonised as a saint in the Catholic Church in 2019.