| 1914 - 530 pages
...be cared for good and evil. He is a memorable instance of the truth of Coleridge's aphorism that ' he who begins by ' loving Christianity better than...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... | |
| Theology - 1826 - 576 pages
...truth. I will venture to add in my own name and from my own conviction the following:— APHORISM XXV. He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth,...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." We are quite of opinion that these last aphorisms, the former by Archbishop Leighton, the latter by... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Christianity - 1836 - 450 pages
...my own conviction the following : APHORISM XXV. He, who begins by loving Christianity better than II Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. APHORISM XXIV. THE ABSENCE OF DISPUTES, AND A GENERAL AVERSION TO RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES, NO PROOF... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1839 - 404 pages
...truth. I will venture to add in my own name and from my own conviction the following : APHORISM XXV. He, who begins by loving Christianity, better than...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. THE ABSENCE OF BISPUTES, AND A GENERAL AVERSION TO RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES, NO PROOF OF TRUE UNANIMITY.... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1839 - 388 pages
...truth. I will venture to add in my own name and from my own conviction the following: APHORISM XXV. He, who begins by loving Christianity, better than...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. APHORISM XXVI. THE ABSENCE OF DISPUTES, AND A GENERAL AVERSION TO RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES, NO PROOF... | |
| Unitarianism - 1841 - 586 pages
...And partizanship soon leads to selfishness; for as Coleridge has said, " He who begins by loving even Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."* I do not think, then, that those who fill the so-called Liberal Professions realize their position,... | |
| Religion - 1842 - 1046 pages
...arguments of a transcendentalizing theology. " He who begins by loving Christianity better than the truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." Not such has been the faith of the real martyrs to principle, in church and state. They who have faced... | |
| Theology - 1842 - 508 pages
...arguments of a transcendentalizing theology. " He who begins by loving Christianity better than the truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." Not such has been the faith of the real martyrs to principle, in church and state. They who have faced... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1842 - 518 pages
...arguments of a transcendentalizing theology. " He who begins by loving Christianity better than the truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church...Christianity, and end in loving' himself better than all." Not such has been the faith of the real martyrs to principle, in church and state. They who have faced... | |
| Theodore Parker - Christianity - 1846 - 418 pages
...have no doubts." — LKIGHTON, dted by COLERIDGE, Aids to Reflection, American edition, 1829, p. 64. " He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth,...Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in lovlnp himself better than all." — COLERIDGE, uM sup., p. 64-65. ' " While everybody wishes to believe... | |
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