Life’s Purpose: Wisdom from John Henry Newman

by John Henry Newman

Publisher:

Pauline Books & Media

, 2010

Overview

Drawing from both his sermons and writings, Life’s Purpose: Wisdom of John Henry Newman lets us reflect with one of the truly great men of the nineteenth century on a problem that continues to perplex humanity today.

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Key Features

• Examines the teachings of John Henry Newman
• Provides time-tested spiritual guidance for living a Christian life

Contents

• “The Pillar of the Cloud,” from Verses on Various Occasions
• “Divine Calls,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
• “Remembrance of Past Mercies,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
• “Hope in God–Creator,” from Meditations and Devotions
• “God Is All in All,” from Meditations and Devotions
• From Essays Critical and Historical
• “Unreal Words,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
• “Contracted Views in Religion,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
• “The Strictness of the Law of Christ,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
• “Sincerity and Hypocrisy,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
• “Invisible Presence of Christ,” from Sermons Bearing on Subjects of the Day
• “The Invisible World,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
• “The Calls of Grace,” from Faith and Prejudice and Other Unpublished Sermons
• “Christian Repentance,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
• “Equanimity,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
• “Miracles No Remedy for Unbelief,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
• “Divine Calls,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
• “Christ Manifested in Remembrance,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
• “The Infinite Perfection of God,” from Meditations and Devotions
• “The Providence of God,” from Meditations and Devotions

Top Highlights

“No, we are creatures; and, as being such, we have two duties, to be resigned and to be thankful.” (Page 8)

“Faith is, in its very nature, the acceptance of what our reason cannot reach, simply and absolutely upon testimony” (Page 19)

“Let us aim at meaning what we say, and saying what we mean” (Page 24)

“He is training His elect, one and all, to the one perfect knowledge and obedience of Christ; not, however, without their cooperation, but by means of calls which they are to obey, and which if they do not obey, they lose place, and fall behind in their heavenly course. He leads them forward from strength to strength, and from glory to glory, up the steps of the ladder whose top reaches to heaven. We pass from one state of knowledge to another; we are introduced into a higher region from a lower, by listening to Christ’s call and obeying it.” (Page 6)

“There are ten thousand ways of looking at this world, but only one right way” (Page 23)

Product Details

• Title: Life’s Purpose: Wisdom from John Henry Newman
• Author: John Henry Newman
• Series: Classic Wisdom Collection
• Publisher: Pauline Books & Media
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 86
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian life › Catholic authors; Christian life › Anglican authors
• Resource ID: LLS:LFPURPOSEWISD
• Resource Type: text.monograph.quotations
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:13:09Z

About John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman (February 21, 1801–August 11, 1890), also referred to as Cardinal Newman and Blessed John Henry Newman, was an important figure in the religious history of England in the nineteenth century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s. Originally an evangelical Oxford academic and priest in the Church of England, Newman was a leader in the Oxford Movement. This influential grouping of Anglicans wished to return the Church of England to many Catholic beliefs and forms of worship traditional in the medieval times to restore ritual expression. In 1845 Newman left the Church of England and was received into the Roman Catholic Church where he was eventually granted the rank of cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. He was instrumental in the founding of the Catholic University of Ireland, which evolved into University College, Dublin, today, the largest university in Ireland. Newman’s beatification was officially proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI on September 19, 2010 during his visit to the United Kingdom. His canonisation is dependent on the documentation of additional miracles. Newman was also a literary figure of note: his major writings including his autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1865–1866), the Grammar of Assent (1870), and the poem The Dream of Gerontius (1865), which was set to music in 1900 by Edward Elgar as an oratorio. He wrote the popular hymns “Lead, Kindly Light” and “Praise to the Holiest in the Height” (taken from Gerontius).