The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

To the devout and spiritual, the Divine Word speaks of things, not merely of notions.
From An Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

If it is a great work to preserve Christianity in the world, this I think the Church has done and is doing: and at this moment Christianity would be dying out in all its varieties were the Catholic Church to be suppressed.
From a letter to John Rickards Mozley, April 21 1875 Click here for the [...]

[The] opposition between Faith and Reason takes place in two ways, when either of the two encroaches upon the province of the other.
From the University sermon ‘The Usurpations of Reason’ (1831) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

It is the characteristic of our minds to be ever engaged in passing judgment on the things which come before us. No sooner do we apprehend than we judge: we allow nothing to stand by itself: we compare, contrast, abstract, generalize, connect, adjust, classify: and we view all our knowledge in the associations with which [...]

Faith only can introduce us to the unseen Presence of God; let us venture to believe, let us make trial before we see, and the evidence which others demand before believing, we shall gain more abundantly by believing.
From the sermon ‘The Gospel Sign Addressed to Faith’ (1837) Click here for the full text (leaves [...]

In this 1835 sermon, Newman tells his hearers that the Christian religion consists in two things: believing in what God has revealed, and doing his will. We achieve this, Newman goes on, through Christ, who shows us both who God is, and how we should live our lives…

Trials come when we forget mercies,—to remind us of them, and to fit us to enjoy and use them suitably.
From the sermon ‘Religious Cowardice’ (1831) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

Nothing can harm those who bear Christ within them.
From the sermon ‘Christ, a Quickening Spirit’ (1831) Click here for the full text (leaves site)