The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

One year goes and then another, but the same warnings recur. The frost or the rain comes again; the earth is stripped of its brightness; there is nothing to rejoice in. And then, amid this unprofitableness of earth and sky, the well-known words return; the Prophet Isaiah is read; the same Epistle and Gospel, bidding [...]

Our first duty is towards our Lord and His Church, and our second towards our earthly Sovereign.
From the sermon ‘The Gospel Palaces’ (1836) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

The whole duty and work of a Christian is made up of these two parts, Faith and Obedience – “looking unto Jesus,” the Divine Object as well as Author of our faith, and acting according to His will.
From the sermon ‘Saving Knowledge’ (1835) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

For thirty years He lived with Mary and Joseph and thus formed a shadow of the Heavenly Trinity on earth. O the perfection of that sympathy which existed between the three! … It was like three instruments absolutely in tune which all vibrate when one vibrates, and vibrate either one and the same note, [...]

In this extract from a sermon from Christmas Day 1834, Newman reflects on the depth of God’s ‘unsearchable Love’, which moved him to send his Son to earth ‘in the form of a servant’:
The Word was from the beginning, the Only-begotten Son of God. Before all worlds were created, while as yet time was not, [...]

“The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” [John 1:14] … Thus briefly and simply does [St John] speak as if fearing he should fail in fitting reverence. If any there was who might seem to have permission to indulge in words on this subject, it was the beloved disciple, who had heard and [...]

No one is a Martyr for a conclusion, no one is a Martyr for an opinion; it is faith that makes Martyrs.
From the sermon ‘Illuminating Grace’ (1849) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

The Son of God Most High, who created the worlds, became flesh, though remaining what He was before. He became flesh as truly as if He had ceased to be what He was, and had actually been changed into flesh. He submitted to be the offspring of Mary, to be taken up in the hands [...]