John Henry Newman Quotes About Christ

• What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?

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  John Henry Newman (1865). “History of My Religious Opinions”, p.118

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• Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He is hidden in the brightness of the radiance which issues from the everlasting throne. He is in the very abyss of peace, where there is no voice of tumult or distress, but a deep stillness--stillness, that greatest and most awful of all goods which we can fancy; that most perfect of joys, the utter profound, ineffable tranquillity of the Divine Essence. He has entered into His rest. That is our home; here we are on a pilgrimage, and Christ calls us to His many mansions which He has prepared.

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  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, Aeterna Press

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• Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

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  John Henry Newman (1875). “A Letter Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk: On Occasion of Mr. Gladstone's Recent Expostulation”, p.73

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• It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.

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  John Henry Newman (1895). “Selection, Adapted to the Seasons of the Ecclesiastical Year: From the Parochial & Plain Sermons”

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• To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

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  John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.47, Ignatius Press

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• The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.

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