...authority for their perfection ? By no means ! Let us stand firmly upon the noble words of Coleridge, that "He who begins by loving Christianity better than...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."4 But while loving the 'Mor. and Rel. Aphor., XXV., Works, New York,...

...He approached every proposition with an unprejudiced mind. In his "Aids to Reflection," he says, " He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth...his own sect or church better than Christianity, and then end in loving himself better than all." The average man believes a thing first, & then searches...

...yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy." And with this famous aphorism of Coleridge l — " He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth,...own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." Inquiry into the evidence of a doctrine is not to be made once...

...suffering, I have escaped, than a flying bird can re-enter the eggshell from which it has emerged. ' He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth,...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself (his own peace) better than all,' said Coleridge. I travelled the contrary way. I...

...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...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 to...

...truth. His position is substantially stated in his twenty-fifth aphorism in the "Aids to Reflection." "He, who begins by loving Christianity better than...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." The book itself is a wonderful prophecy of the yearning for reality...

...sufferings, as a flying bird can no longer enter into the shell of the egg from which it came out. " He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all," said Coleridge. I went the opposite way. I began by loving my Orthodox...

...sufferings, as a flying bird can no longer enter into the shell of the egg from which it came out. "He who begins by loving Christianity better than...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all," said Coleridge. I went the opposite way. I began by loving my Orthodox...

...sufferings, as a flying bird can no longer enter into the shell of the egg from which it came out. "He who begins by loving Christianity better than...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all," said Coleridge. I went the opposite way. I began by loving my Orthodox...

...though no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe. COLERIDGE. He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth...Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all. TOLSTOI. One may say with one's lips: " I believe in the creation of Genesis, or that Jesus flew through...