The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

From the time that I became a Catholic, of course I have no further history of my religious opinions to narrate. In saying this, I do not mean to say that my mind has been idle, or that I have given up thinking on theological subjects; but that I have had no variations to record, [...]

To open the mind, to correct it, to refine it, to enable it to know, and to digest, master, rule, and use its knowledge, to give it power over its own faculties … [is] an object as intelligible as the cultivation of virtue, while, at the same time, it is absolutely distinct from it.
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Such is the blessedness of the innocent, that is, of those who have never given way to evil, or formed themselves to habits of sin; who in consequence literally do not know its power or its misery, who have thoughts of truth and peace ever before them, and are able to discern at once the [...]

God beholds thee individually, whoever thou art. He “calls thee by thy name.” [cf. Isaiah 43: 1] He sees thee, and understands thee, as He made thee.
From the sermon ‘A Particular Providence as Revealed in the Gospel’ (1835) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

O my Lord Jesu … I am strong in Thee, strong through Thy Immaculate Mother, through Thy Saints: and thus I can do much for the Church, for the world, for all I love.
From Meditations and Devotions (1893) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

In his insightful 1839 sermon ‘Unreal words’, Newman argues that it’s dangerous talking about religious truths that we have not personally understood and ‘realised’ in experience. Religion doesn’t end with learning doctrines, but has its culmination in a making those doctrines a reality in the way that we live…

Those men are not necessarily the most useful men in their generation, not the most favoured by God, who make the most noise in the world, and who seem to be principals in the great changes and events recorded in history.
From the sermon ‘The World’s Benefactors’ (1830) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

I grant that I do assume certain first principles as the starting points from which my convictions proceed, and I don’t see who can arrive at any conviction without making assumptions. I assume that there is a truth in religion, and that it is attainable by us: that there is a God, to whom we [...]