 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1884 - 512 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...himself better than all. APHORISM XXVI. THE ABSENCE IP DISPUTES, AND Л GKNCRAL, AVERSION TO RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIKS NO PROOF OF TRUE UNANIMITY. Lcighton... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 704 pages
...excludes or limits a readinest to receive Christianity as Divine if the Truth shall demand it: — " He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth,...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." — [" Mor. and Rel. Aphorisms": XXv. Works ; New York ed., 1853 : Vol. 1 : p. 173. XXVIII. : p. 28.—"... | |
 | William Kingdon Clifford - 1884 - 78 pages
...true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.' And with this famous aphorism of Coleridge — ' He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth,...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.' Inquiry into the evidence of a doctrine is not to be made once for all, and then taken as finally settled.... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 698 pages
...excludes or limits a readinesi to receive Christianity as Divine if the Truth shall demand it: — " He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth,...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end hi loving himself better than nil." — [" Mor. and Rel. Aphorisms"; XXV. Works ; New York ed., 1853... | |
 | Keningale Cook - 1886 - 490 pages
...the dead traditions of a Pharisaic Church ? The piercing words of ST Coleridge occur to the mind : " He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." The immorality of the prevalent doctrine lies in its inculcation of the belief that by a magical formula... | |
 | 1886 - 988 pages
...his character: rather, as Mr. Coleridge says, «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.' A teetotaler will not add so much to society by his temperance as he will take away from society, if... | |
 | Alois Brandl - 1887 - 424 pages
...wall of the Temple, wherever a chink betrayed a ray of light. He says in his 'Aids to Reflection,' " He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth,...own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all." He maintained his life long the deepest conviction that the Truth... | |
 | William Hunt (Journalist) - 1887 - 280 pages
...warning by the frightful example of their religious colleagues, remembering that as Coleridge i-ays, "He who begins by loving Christianity better than...truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church, and end by loving himself better than all. His Grace the Archbishop of York, as President THE ARCIIBISHOV... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Barnett, Barnett (Canon), Mrs. S. A. Barnett - 1888 - 246 pages
...his character : rather, as Mr. Coleridge says, ' 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.' A teetotaller will not add so much to society by his temperance as he will take away from society if... | |
 | 1888 - 900 pages
...in the independent spirit which is reflected in the noble aphorism of his Aids to Reflection — " he who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect and church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."' After Coleridge's... | |
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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 himself better than all. 
