In time it enters upon strange territory ; points of controversy alter their bearing ; parties rise and fall about it ; dangers and hopes appear in new relations, and old principles reappear under new forms ; it changes with them, in order to remain the... An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - Page 39by John Henry Newman - 1846 - 453 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1924 - 512 pages
...impending need not alarm the people if they get ready to meet them intelligently and with justice; for "To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." 338 At this time of unpredictable outcomes, of worldwide unrest and every kind of upheaval, it is necessary... | |
| Bertram Newman - English cardinals - 1925 - 252 pages
...enters upon strange territory ; points of controversy alter their bearing, parties rise and fall around it ; dangers and hopes appear in new relations ; and...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.' The substance of this famous essay is a matter for the ecclesiastical historian alone, and its consideration... | |
| Robert Henry Murray - Science - 1925 - 492 pages
...seldom attends the scientist. John Henry Newman held that " in a higher world it may be different. But here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." In that sense Lyell was always advancing towards perfection. From such a point of view it is surely... | |
| Robert Henry Murray - Political science - 1926 - 458 pages
...practises persecution on a wholesale scale. "In a higher world it may be different," wrote Cardinal Newman, "but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." In this sense Rousseau continued to advance unsteadily towards perfection. His main ideas remained... | |
| Thomas Bradbury Chetwood - 1927 - 104 pages
...enters upon strange territory; points of controversy alter their bearing; parties rise and fall round it; dangers and hopes appear in new relations ; and...below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often. — ("Development of Christian Doctrine," p. 39.) b89097214118a ... | |
| Wilfrid Ward - Cardinals - 1912 - 1222 pages
...that religion may be said in some measure what he says of the development of a living idea itself, 'old principles reappear under new forms. It changes...change and to be perfect is to have changed often.' The assurance of Bishop Gillis that the argument of his book had arrested the attention of the Scotch... | |
| Henry Dewsbury Alves Major - History - 1927 - 292 pages
...changing if change be in accordance with principles and not merely opportunist. It was JH Newman who said: "To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." All the changes urged by the Modernist can be shown to be in harmony with the fundamental principles... | |
| Joseph John Reilly - 1925 - 352 pages
...ends with the policeman." From the Development of Christian Doctrine "Calculations never made a hero"; "Here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often." Perhaps you sniff a little. How colloquial all this sounds! What has become of our "elegant"... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1916 - 684 pages
...there that great results are to be obtained. The Emperor lived to be of Cardinal Newman's view that here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. In his exile at St. Helena there is a remarkable evidence of change of judgment. He burst out with... | |
| Eugene H. Peterson - Family & Relationships - 1994 - 130 pages
...of growth than what goes on in adolescence, but it is growth nevertheless. John Henry Newman wrote: "In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." 4 He was writing about the growth of doctrine, but his words are quite as appropriate for growth in... | |
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