The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

Oh may we persevere to the end! Many fall away. Let us watch and pray. Let us not get secure. Let us not think it enough to have got through one temptation well; through [...]

We stand in God’s presence, we are in his Church, in his favour, in the way of his grace, in the way to be pardoned; and this is our great comfort … We are not in a desperate state, we are not cast out of our Father’s house; we have still privileges, aids, powers, from [...]

No one begins to examine himself, and to pray to know himself … but he finds within him an abundance of faults which before were either entirely or almost entirely unknown [...]

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
From the sermon ‘Love the Safeguard of Faith against Superstition’ (1839) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

The impure then cannot love God; and those who are without love of God cannot really be pure. Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul [...]

The Catholic saints alone confess sin, because the Catholic saints alone see God.
From the sermon ‘The Religion of the Pharisee, the Religion of Mankind’ (1856) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

Little children, let us love one another. Let us be meek and gentle; let us think before we speak … let us do good, not hoping for a return, and avoiding all display before [...]

The more a person tries to obey his conscience, the more he gets alarmed at himself, for obeying it so imperfectly. His sense of duty will become more keen, and his perception of transgression more delicate, and he will understand more and more how many things he has to be forgiven.
From the sermon ‘Dispositions for [...]