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| Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 416 sider
...Fletcher (an early English Methodist). LOVE OF TRUTH. He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church, better than Christianity, and by loving himself better than all. — ST Coleridge. THE TRUE PRIEST — REFORMER — AND ONE ARMY... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 sider
...Fletcher (an early English Methodist). LOVE OF TRUTH. He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church, better than Christianity, and by loving himself better than all. — ST Coleridge. THE TRUE PRIEST — REFORMER — AND ONE ARMY... | |
| 1873 - 712 sider
...with sovereigns, which they examine and weigh one by one. He who begins by loving theology better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all. The voice of Selfishness — " Send the multitude away." The voice... | |
| Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 sider
...will make us direct and consistent. — Dr. Blair. 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 aU.— ST Coleridge. TRUTH. -Man a Steward for Truth is not man's property, which he may keep to himself;... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1876 - 360 sider
...Aids to Reflection, American edition, 1829, p. 64. " 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."—COLEBIDQE, ubi sup. p. 64, 65. " While everybody wishes to believe rather than examine and... | |
| 1876 - 1000 sider
...Then it had better fall. " He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth." says Coleridge, "will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and by loving himself better than all." The only safety is in truth, for all truth is of God. The writer... | |
| 1877 - 1212 sider
...And with this famous aphorism of Coleridgef — t; He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in lovinghimself better than all." Inquiry into the evidence of a doctrine is not to be made once for... | |
| Decay - 1878 - 164 sider
...Divine? CHAPTER VIII. CHURCHES AND FIXED BELIEFS. "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." — 'Aids to Reflection.' THOSE who hold, as most persons do, that churches are essential to the permanence... | |
| 1878 - 298 sider
...of some great truth still below thlf horizon. . . . He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect, or church, better than Christianity, and end in loving his own opinion best of all. — ,y. T. Coleridge ; English. I gth cent. AC THE moment we feel angry... | |
| Walter Frederic Adeney - 1879 - 398 sider
...truths of Christianity. NOTES OF MESSIANIC PROPHECY. 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 <?//.— COLERIDGE. II. NOTES OF MESSIANIC PROPHECY. TT THAT are the notes of Messianic pro* • phccy... | |
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