John Henry Newman Quotes on Life
John Henry Newman was an English theologian, religious philosopher, and one of the great prose stylists of Victorian English. This page collects quotes attributed to John Henry Newman on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
Chapter 1, Section 1, p. 39 -
“Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom; lead Thou me on.”
The Pillar of the Cloud , st. 1 (1833) -
“Men live after their death—they live not only in their writings or their chronicled history, but still more in that ἄγραφος μνήμη exhibited in a school of pupils who trace their moral parentage to them.”
Letter to Rev. S. Rickards (20 July 1830), quoted in Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the English Church With a Brief Autobiography, Vol. I , ed. Anne Mozley (1890), p. 203 -
“Letter to Rev. S. Rickards (20 July 1830), quoted in Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the English Church With a Brief Autobiography, Vol. I , ed. Anne Mozley (1890), p. 203”
Men live after their death—they live not only in their writings or their chronicled history, but still more in that ἄγραφος μνήμη exhibited in a school of pupils who trace their moral parentage to them.