He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
ATTRIBUTION:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), British poet, critic. Aids to Reflection, “Moral and Religious Aphorisms,” no. 25 (1825), repr. In Works, vol. 1, ed. Professor Shedd (1853).
