The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

The heart of every Christian ought to represent in miniature the Catholic Church, since one Spirit makes both the whole Church and every member of it to be His Temple. As He makes the Church one, which, left to itself, would separate into many parts; so He makes the soul one, in spite of its [...]

This then is the special glory of the Christian Church, that its members do not depend merely on what is visible, they are not mere stones of a building, piled one on another, and bound together from without, but they are one and all the births and manifestations of one and the same unseen spiritual principle or power, “living stones,” internally connected, as branches from a tree, not as the parts of a heap.

The glories of Mary are for the sake of Jesus; and … we praise and bless her as the first of creatures, that we may confess Him as our sole Creator.
From the sermon ‘The Glories of Mary for the Sake of Her Son’ (1849) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

[Christ] came first in the flesh; He has come the second time in the Spirit.
From ‘Lectures on the Doctrine of Justification’ (1838) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

This wonderful change from darkness to light, through the entrance of the Spirit into the soul, is called Regeneration, or the New Birth; a blessing which, before Christ’s coming, not even Prophets and righteous men possessed, but which is now conveyed to all men freely through the Sacrament of Baptism.
From the sermon ‘The Indwelling Spirit’ [...]

The great and chief revelation which God has made us of His will is through Christ and His Apostles.
From the sermon ‘Waiting for Christ’ (1840) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

Cardinal John Patrick Foley, Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, has said that John Henry Newman should be declared a Doctor of the Universal Church.

Cardinal Foley said that Newman’s “compelling intellectual argumentation” could bring the rejuvenation – ‘Second Spring’ – of English Catholicism so desired by this great Catholic figure.

When one of [St Philip Neri's] penitents asked him to teach him how to pray, he answered, “Be humble and obedient, and the Holy Ghost will teach you.”
From Meditations and Devotions (1893) Click here for the full text (leaves site)