John Murphy

“To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.”
― John Henry Newman

“Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.”
― John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons

“It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples’ feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation.”
― John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons

“Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post.”
― John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua