The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

Had we any proper insight into things as they are, had we any real apprehension of God as He is, of ourselves as we are, we should never dare to serve Him without fear, or to rejoice unto Him without trembling.
From Sermons Preached on Various Occasions, Sermon 2.  Click here for full text (leaves site)

John Henry Newman will be beatified by Pope Benedict XVI at Cofton Park, Rednal, a stone’s throw from the Oratory House at Rednal and the cemetery where he was buried among his own Oratorian brothers. The Holy Father, and those taking part in the beatification, will have a real experience of the place where Newman, [...]

If the Church, initiated in the Apostles and continued in their successors, has been set up for the direct object of protecting, preserving, and declaring the Revelation, and that, [...]

They who make self instead of their Maker the great object of their contemplation will naturally exalt themselves.
From “Plain and Parochial Sermons” Vol. 2, Sermon 15. Click here for full text (leaves site)

[The] Church made you what you are, as far as you are Christian; and the Church that made you has a right to rule you, and to protest against you when you will [...]

If then the power of speech is a gift as great as any that can be named,—if the origin of language is by many philosophers even considered to be nothing short of divine,—if by means [...]

Set about doing what it is so difficult to do, but what should not, must not be left undone; watch, and pray, and meditate, that is, according to the leisure which [...]

When the intellect is cultivated, it is as certain that it will develope into a thousand various shapes, as that infinite hues and tints and shades of colour will be reflected from the earth’s surface, [...]