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The Collected Works of John Henry Newman (31 Vols.) includes over two hundred fifty sermons from Newman. Newman's professional career spanned nearly seventy years, during which time he held the position of vicar at Oriel College, Oxford, rector of University College, Dublin, priest at Birmingham Oratory and was appointed to the college of Cardinals in 1879. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Sermons...

the fulness of Catholic blessings is, that those who see the Church ever so distantly, who see but gleams or the faint lustre of her majesty, yet should not be so far attracted by what they see as to seek to see more,—should not at least put themselves in the way to be led on to the Truth, which of course is not ordinarily recognized in its divine authority except by degrees.—Moses, when he saw the burning bush, turned aside to see “that great sight;” Nathanael, though he thought no good could come
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