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People may say or look what they like, she will have her way about this sentiment of hers. The poor relation is in a dreadful fidget whenever the little gentleman says anything that interferes with her own infallibility.
"But here in this pleasant place let us dismiss such unpleasant thoughts," the pope more cheerfully continued, after a pause. "Here I will forget that I am pope; here I will never be anything more than brother Clement of the Franciscan convent, nor shall the cares and troubles of the pope, nor his holiness or infallibility, accompany him to this dear quiet place.
It may be possible for large masses of humanity to accept for ages the idea of one infallible Church, however tyrannical but the idea once admitted that there may be many churches; that what is called the State can be separated from what is called the Church; the plea of infallibility and of authority soon becomes ridiculous a mere fiction of political or fashionable quackery to impose upon the uneducated or the unreflecting.
"You mean that she issued a ukase to the effect that she had done it," said a Russian of the old school; "and if she had liked she could have travelled more quickly still; it was only a question of the wording of the ukase." Even when I was in Russia it was not allowable to doubt the infallibility of a ukase, and to do so was, equivalent to high treason. One day I was crossing a canal at St.
Has been of exceptional service to the country both by the number of his victories and by the daily example of his never-flagging courage and constantly increasing mastery. Careless of danger, he has become, by the infallibility of his methods, the most formidable opponent of German flyers.
It is not because he satisfies the reason, but because he astounds it, that men abase themselves before the Vicar of Christ. And certainly the doctrine of Papal Infallibility presents to the reason a sufficiency of stumbling-blocks. In the fourteenth century, for instance, the following case arose.
It pained her to think that I should allow myself to even question the authenticity and infallibility of the Bible. Her faith was so strong and her nature so gentle that I refrained from discussing the subject in any form, after I found how much she grieved over it.
On the other hand, where the traditional dogma of Judaism is clear and outspoken, it is incumbent upon man to be modest and not to claim the infallibility of direct revelation for the limited powers of logical inference and deduction. We must now give a brief account of the questions discussed in the "Milhamot Adonai." And first a word about Gersonides's style and method.
And Catholic and Protestant infallibility alike denounced Newton, one of the noblest men and the grandest scientists that the world has ever seen, because in proclaiming the law of gravity, they said, he was taking the universe out of the hands of God and establishing practical atheism.
Benjamin thanked him for his complimentary words, and the surgeon went on: "I am the author of the book entitled, 'The Infallibility of Human Judgment, and I think our views harmonize in the main. I should be pleased to loan you a copy if you care to read it." "It will afford me real pleasure to read it, Doctor Lyons, and I shall appreciate your favor."
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