Quotes by Joseph Fort Newton

“Belief is a truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.”

“We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living.”

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.

Not what we have but what we use not what we see but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.

“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”