Parochial and Plain Sermons [Complete] Quotes.

1. "Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need."
- John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons [Complete]

2. "It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples’ feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation."
- John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons [Complete]

3. "What is more likely, considering our perverse nature, than that we should neglect the duties, while we wish to retain the privileges of our Christian profession? Our"
- John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons [Complete]

4. "Above all, clergymen are bound to form and pronounce an opinion. It is sometimes said, in familiar language, that a clergyman should have nothing to do with politics. This is true, if it be meant that he should not aim at secular objects, should not side with a political party as such, should not be ambitious of popular applause, or the favour of great men, should not take pleasure and lose time in business of this world, should not be covetous. But if it means that he should not express an opinion and exert an influence one way rather than another, it is plainly unscriptural. Did"
- John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons [Complete]

5. "Doing is at a far greater distance from intending to do than you at first sight imagine. Join"
- John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons [Complete]