John Henry Newman Quote

I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.


Lectures on Catholicism in England, delivered in the Corn Exchange Birmingham (ed. 1851)


I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they...

I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they...

I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they...

I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they...