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Now we must remember, that if all the manifestly good men were on one side, and all the manifestly bad men on the other,...
07/02/2019

Now we must remember, that if all the manifestly good men were on one side, and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone, least of all, the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Antichrist, and so sadly to crucify afresh the Lord afresh whom they do more than profess to love. Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that their deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side. Nevertheless the example of the devout and the mortified and, above all, of the humble and the obedient, must be of great weight in questions of this nature. In all matters which concern the relations of the Church with the world the sainst are the only safe doctors.

- Frederick William Faber. Devotion to the Church. London: Richardson and Son. 1861. P. 27-28.

Such is the rule of our warfare. We advance by yielding; we rise by falling; we conquer by suffering; we persuade by sil...
06/02/2019

Such is the rule of our warfare. We advance by yielding; we rise by falling; we conquer by suffering; we persuade by silence; we become rich by bountifulness; we inherit the earth through meekness; we gain comfort through mourning; we earn glory by penitence and prayer. Heaven and earth shall sooner fall than this rule be reversed; it is the law of Christ's kingdom, and nothing can reverse it but sin.

- Blessed John Henry Newman. Sermon 12. Joshua a Type of Christ and His Followers // John Henry Newman. Sermons bearing Subjects of the Day. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1902. P. 162.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to anoth...
03/10/2018

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission- I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his - if, indeed, I fail, He can raise another, as He could make the stones children of Abraham. Yet I have a part in this great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connexion between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

- John Henry Newman. Meditations and Devotions. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907. P. 301.

The infallibility, whether of the Church or of the Pope, acts principally or solely in two channels, in direct statement...
17/10/2017

The infallibility, whether of the Church or of the Pope, acts principally or solely in two channels, in direct statements of truth, and in the condemnation of error. The former takes the shape of doctrinal definitions, the latter stigmatizes propositions as heretical, next to heresy, erroneous, and the like. In each case the Church, as guided by her Divine Master, has made provision for weighing as lightly as possible on the faith and conscience of her children.

- John Henry Newman. A Letter Addressed to the Duke of Norfolk on Occasion of Mr. Gladstone's Recent Expostulation // Certain Difficulties Felt by Anglicans in Catholic Teaching Considered. Vol. II. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. P. 333

Faith... is not a conclusion from premisses, but a result of an act of the will, following upon a conviction that to bel...
09/10/2017

Faith... is not a conclusion from premisses, but a result of an act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

- To Mrs William Froude. Mary Vale. Perry Bar. June 27. 1848 // Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman. In 32 vols. Vol XII. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1962. P. 228

Shunning all intemperate words, let us rather show our light before men by our works. Here we must be safe. In doing jus...
07/10/2017

Shunning all intemperate words, let us rather show our light before men by our works. Here we must be safe. In doing justice, showing mercy, speaking the truth, resisting sin, obeying the Church,—in thus glorifying God, there can be no irreverence.

- Sermon 23. Christian Reverence // John Henry Newman. Parochial and Plain Sermons. In 8 vols. Vol. 1. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907. P. 308

It is not then that Catholics are afraid of human knowledge, but that they are proud of divine knowledge, and that they ...
03/10/2017

It is not then that Catholics are afraid of human knowledge, but that they are proud of divine knowledge, and that they think the omission of any kind of knowledge whatever, human or divine, to be, as far as it goes, not knowledge, but ignorance.

- Discourse 4. Bearing of Other Branches of Knowledge on Theology // John Henry Newman. The Idea of a University. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907. P. 73

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