 | Joseph Warschauer - 1913 - 342 sider
...bringing forth fruit after its kind, good or evil. " Things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be ; why then should we desire to be deceived ? " said old Bishop Butler. That is a sober doctrine, as simple and withal as complex as life itself... | |
 | 1913 - 114 sider
...medical profession of the dangers of self-flattery and selfdelusion, "for things are what they are and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why, then, should you desire to be deceived." And he regretted that a spirit of graft and commercialism is the Gorgon's... | |
 | Francis Neilson - 1915 - 410 sider
...British Empire. " Things and actions are what they are," said Bishop Butler, in a noble passage, " and the consequences of them will be what they will be. Why then should we desire to be deceived? " The hoary method of war first and law after is being repeated in this present complication. When the question... | |
 | John Ira Riegel, John H. Jordan - 1917 - 312 sider
...all in Hebrew literature. IX "THE PLACE OF A SKULL" " Things are what they are, and the consequence of them will be what they will be. Why, then, should we desire to be deceived?" — BISHOP BUTLEB. With pathetic faith, the populace clung to the vain hope that even on the brink... | |
 | James Denney - 1917 - 360 sider
...know how deep-seated is the impression that forgiveness is impossible. ' Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why then should we wish to be deceived ? ' To do wrong is to do what cannot be made right ; it is to impair relations... | |
 | Joseph Hannay Leckie - 1918 - 392 sider
...sacrifice of Christ. Their attitude has been that of Butler when he says—" Things are what they are: and the consequences of them will be what they will be. Why then should we seek to deceive ourselves ?" As to the masses of believers, no doubt they have accepted the traditional... | |
 | Enoch Burton Gowin - 1919 - 552 sider
...gained or lost. At least, we tried not to deceive ourselves." "Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived?" asks Bishop Butler. The victim of this ostrich-like ignoring of the facts is able to make no satisfactory... | |
 | George Gordon Coulton - 1919 - 220 sider
...greatest of Christian apologists, bishop Butler, who wrote 'things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived60? ' If Christ did not in fact institute the catholic church even in that rudimentary form... | |
 | George Gordon Coulton - 1919 - 222 sider
...Heaven in a dead soldier's semblance pursueth us ever.' 'Things and actions are what they are, and. the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why then, should we wish to be deceived?' Nothing but self-deception can blink the present redemption of the world through... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Harrison, Richard Frederick Scholz, Harvey B. Densmore - 1920 - 648 sider
...Chancelleries ? Or has Bishop Butler's famous declaration become obsolete : "Things are what they are and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why then should we desire to be deceived" ? 3. The rebound of selfish interests so generally repressed in the period during which we shared the... | |
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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived? 
