...existence that the famous Aphorism 25 (of the 'Moral and Religious Aphorisms') needs to be understood: 'He who begins by loving Christianity better than...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.' This Coleridge meant seriously, for Christianity cannot be so counterposed...

...its legs again in the name of Jesus. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet Christian: One...

...one's reason for the sake of some religious belief results in moral corruption of the personality: "He, who begins by loving Christianity better than...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." 1 " There can be no stronger moral claim in defense of the life...

...untried. GK CHESTERTON (1874-1936). British author. What's Wrong With the World, pi. 1, ch. 5 (1910). 13 {Ş @>4 H r $U {a V { Ю mv p ; LE R } 1~ 9 a tg 4 .ɫ8 s r6; @ ! r V tc in loving himself better than all. SAMUEL TA YL OR COLERIDGE (1 772-1834). English poet, critic. Aids...

...not be frightened of the search for greater understanding. Samuel Taylor Coleridge put it this way: He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth...Christianity and end by loving himself better than all. If we refuse to seek the truth, if we retreat behind our own certainties because we are frightened...

...GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, (1874-1936) British author. What's Wrong With the World, pt. 1, ch. 5 (1910). 5 He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth,...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, no. 25 (1825), repr. in Works, vol. 1,...

...make the object of faith imaginary. All would no doubt agree in some sense with Coleridge's aphor-ism: 'He who begins by loving Christianity, better than...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.' The difficulty is that while this can be taken in the spirit of...

...of the clear principles he enunciated. By the way, he quotes elsewhere Coleridge's pungent aphorism: 'He who begins by loving Christianity better than...proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christiantiy, and end in loving himself better than all.' Yours very sincerely Ernest Jones reprint...

...as their paramount obligation. A characteristic formulation of it might be quoted by way of example: 'He, who begins by loving Christianity better than...own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.':*8 The fact that men like Coleridge, Hare and Maurice disliked...

...I will live Thy Protestant to be. Robert Herrick, To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything (1648) 20 He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth...Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all. ST Coleridge, Aids to Reflection ( 1 825) 21 All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is...