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 | Durant Drake - 1916 - 452 sider
..." Follow truth though it takes you over Niagara! " and Coleridge wrote, in a well-known passage, " He who begins by loving Christianity better than the...Christianity and end in loving himself better than all." But on the whole, there has been little passion for truth in the Church, little willingness seriously... | |
 | Durant Drake - 1916 - 452 sider
...Follow truth though it takes you over Niagara! " and Coleridge wrote, in a well-known passage, " HP who begins by loving Christianity better than the...Christianity and end in loving himself better than all." But on the whole, there has been little passion for truth in the Church, little willingness seriously... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1916 - 824 sider
...unprejudiced mind. In his "Aids to Reflection," he says, " He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and then end in loving himself better than all." The average man believes a thing first, and then searches... | |
 | George Peck Eckman - 1918 - 380 sider
...they run ahead of the Lord's revelation or commandment, and thus become deceivers. Coleridge said, "He who begins by loving Christianity better than...his own sect or church better than Christianity, and will end in loving himself better than all." People who think Christianity means a theory they have... | |
 | Samuel McComb - 1919 - 264 sider
...hung up in the library of every student of religion: "He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. ' ' 1 Unhappily, the scientific movement has in the popular mind been confused with the unscientific... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1919 - 434 sider
...COMMUNITY CHURCH CAN A MINISTER BE AN HONEST MAN? I He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity and end by loving himself better than all. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A COMMUNITY CHURCH CAN A MINISTER, BE AN... | |
 | Gilbert Reid - 1921 - 316 sider
...church. We quote again from Coleridge, who said: "He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or Church...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall says: "There is an increasing number, in and out of Christian pulpits, who... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1922 - 398 sider
...him up as an example of Coleridge's grave warning, "He. who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." I find him in these late days no nearer to Rome, not an inch nearer, than in the days of his early... | |
 | Nathan Haskell Dole - 1911 - 502 sider
...him. He put at the head of it Coleridge's dictum : "He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church...Christianity and end in loving himself better than all." He said he had gone the opposite way by loving his orthodox belief more than his peace of mind; then... | |
 | William Lang Paige Cox - 1923 - 360 sider
...instance of the truth of Coleridge's aphorism that " he who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity." Toleration was ideal ; but what if it brought evil as well as good, if it destroyed the unity of the... | |
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