 | 1914 - 530 pages
...capacity he thought first and last of truth, while in the former be cared for good and evil. He is a memorable instance of the truth of Coleridge's aphorism...Church he loved, if it achieved the disintegration and misery of his country ? When he wrote the ' Utopia ' he had no personal experience of heretics or of... | |
 | 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,...loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." We are quite of opinion that these last aphorisms, the... | |
 | 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 ' better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. APHORISM XXIV. THE ABSENCE OF DISPUTES, AND A GENERAL AVERSION... | |
 | 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...loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. APHORISM XXVI. THE ABSENCE OF DISPUTES, AND A GENERAL AVERSION... | |
 | 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...loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. THE ABSENCE OF BISPUTES, AND A GENERAL AVERSION TO RELIGIOUS... | |
 | 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 his own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."* I do not think, then, that those who fill the so-called... | |
 | 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 better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." Not such has been the faith of the real martyrs to principle,... | |
 | 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 better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." Not such has been the faith of the real martyrs to principle,... | |
 | 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 better than Christianity, and end in loving' himself better than all." Not such has been the faith of the real martyrs to principle,... | |
 | James Martineau - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1845 - 188 pages
...Gathercole's for his Church, exemplify two out of the three steps indicated in the Aphorism of Coleridge: " He, who begins by loving Christianity better than...loving his own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."—Aids to Reflection. Moral and Religious Aph. XXV. Note... | |
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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. 
