Sententiae Anglicanae

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.

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.

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