... it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost,... The Christian Examiner - Seite 1541869Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 Seiten
...withdraw, and in consequence I here deliberately repeat it. I said, " The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for...millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say should 5 be lost, but should... | |
| Edward Payson Tenney - 1907 - 440 Seiten
...dust and ashes, compared with the value of one single soul ; she holds that it were far better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are in it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that... | |
| Algernon Cecil - 1909 - 328 Seiten
...with reiterated emphasis that it was a mere preamble to the faith of the Catholic Church, " that it is better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for...all the many millions on it to die of starvation in extremes! agony, as far as temporal affliction 1 " Discourses to Mixed Congregation," pp. 39, 40. I89o]... | |
| Stafford Harry Northcote Saint Cyres (viscount) - 1910 - 464 Seiten
...subjects of Louis XIV. But the Church's teaching had not varied. ' Better,' it still maintained, ' for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for the many millions on it to die in extremest agony, than that one soul should tell a wilful untruth,... | |
| George Spencer Bower - 1911 - 568 Seiten
...Newman, after stating, in a passage of tremendous majesty and power, that " the Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for...all the many millions on it to die of starvation in cxtremcst agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul . . . should commit one venial... | |
| George Moore - 1912 - 396 Seiten
...Newman's mind ; it is the mind that produces the style. Listen to this : " The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for...millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should... | |
| George Moore - 1912 - 346 Seiten
...Newman's mind; it is the mind that produces the style. Listen to this: "'The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for...all the many millions on it to die of starvation in extremist agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be... | |
| John Henry Newman - 1913 - 566 Seiten
...withdraw, and in consequence I here deliberately repeat it. I said, " The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for...millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, 10 as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should... | |
| Frank Hill Perrycoste - 1913 - 358 Seiten
...truthfulness, what a mockery it is to find Newman declaring that " the Church holds that it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony — so far as temporal affliction goes —... | |
| Mark Van Doren - 1916 - 162 Seiten
...religiously self -centered! as Cardinal Newman was concerned for the personal soul when Newman held it " better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for...millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say should be lost, but should commit... | |
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