John Henry Newman

"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."

"I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards."

"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."

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

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

"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."