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" In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. "
The Laws - Page 17
by Plato - 1970 - 551 pages
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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

John Henry Newman - History - 1845 - 480 pages
...relations, and old principles reappear under new forms; it changes with them in order to remain the same. In a higher world it is otherwise ; but here below...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. I conclude with an example: No one but will allow that Wesleyanism represents an idea, a doctrine,...
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The Oxford and Cambridge review, Volume 2

1846 - 578 pages
...determines to stop, sooner or later becomes a sect.' Compare with this the noted and notable passage, ' In a higher world it is otherwise ; but here below...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.'* Pass we on to his opinion concerning the Church of Rome up to the sixteenth century, and at that era....
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The baptist Magazine

1846 - 868 pages
...variations to which "a philosophy or sect" is subject in its progress, Mr. Newman thus concludes : — " In a higher world, it is otherwise; but here below...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."— Pp. 38, 39. If these remarks were meant to apply merely to any system of philosophy or human polity,...
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The Baptist Magazine, Volume 38

Baptists - 1846 - 956 pages
...progress, Mr. Newman thus concludes : — " In a higher world, it is otherwise ; but here below to lire is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." — Pp. 38, 39. If these remarks were meant to apply merely to any system of philosophy or human polity,...
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The divine rule of faith and practice; or, A defence of the ..., Volume 1

William Goode - Bible - 1853 - 508 pages
...and old principles re-appear under new forms • " it changes with them in order to remain the same. In a higher " world it is otherwise ; but here below...change, and " to be perfect is to have changed often." (pp. 38, 39.) Such is Mr. Newman's account of the development of Christian doctrine in the successive...
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Modern Atheism: Under Its Forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism ...

James Buchanan - Atheism - 1857 - 442 pages
...relations, and old principles reappear under new forms; it changes with them, in order to remain the same. In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." 1 In answer to the objection, " that inspired documents, such as the Holy Scriptures, at once determine...
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Modern Atheism: Under Its Forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism ...

James Buchanan - Atheism - 1857 - 436 pages
...relations, and old principles reappear under new forms ; it changes with them, in order to remain the same. In a higher world it is otherwise ; but here below...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." * In answer to the objection, " that inspired documents, such as the Holy Scriptures, at once determine...
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Modern Atheism: Under Its Forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism ...

James Buchanan - Atheism - 1857 - 444 pages
...relations, and old principles reappear under new forms ; it changes with them, in order to remain the same. In a higher world it is otherwise ; but here below...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often" l In answer to the objection, " that inspired documents, such as the Holy Scriptures, at once determine...
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History of Rationalism: Embracing a Survey of the Present State of ...

John Fletcher Hurst - Protestantism - 1865 - 656 pages
...hidden world of force. Surrounding things change, but these changes only contribute to its development. Here below, to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. This is all true of Christianity; the lapse of years, instead of injuring it, has only brought out...
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History of rationalism. Revised from the 3rd Amer. ed

John Fletcher Hurst - 1867 - 552 pages
...hidden world of force. Surrounding things change, but these changes only contribute to its development. Here below, to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. This is all true of Christianity ; the lapse of years, instead of injuring it, has only brought out...
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