 ... 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
 | Aharon Lichtenstein - 2003 - 290 Seiten
...considerations. One recalls, by analogy, Newman's striking declaration: "The Catholic Church holds it better for the 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... | |
 | Jeff Astley, David Brown, Ann Loades - 2003 - 132 Seiten
...first, consider one of Newman's more controversial utterances: The Church holds that it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony . . . than that one soul . . . should... | |
 | Gertrude Himmelfarb - 2007 - 333 Seiten
...to 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 be lost, but should... | |
 | Peter Jeffery - 2007 - 356 Seiten
...in her own way, do good to souls, it is no use her doing anything; she 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, than that... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 2008 - 532 Seiten
...to 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 be lost, but should... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1864 - 812 Seiten
...be an emphatic protest against the existing state of mankind ;' and the Church teaches ' that it is better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for...die of starvation in extremest agony, than that one sonl, I will not say should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful... | |
 | Edward Alexander - 252 Seiten
...widely criticized but which he is glad to repeat and endorse once again: "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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1969 - 196 Seiten
...a saintly and humane Victorian, Cardinal Newman: 'The Catholic 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 as far as temporal affliction goes, than that... | |
 | John Laird - 412 Seiten
...commensurability. But is it? Neither Lecky nor Rashdall could assent to Newman's statement that it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, or for all the many millions who are upon it to die of : starvation in extremes! agony, than that one... | |
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