Sentences with phrase «start of its adherents»

«The assailants of dogmatic truth have got the start of its adherents of whatever Creed; philosophy is completing what criticism has begun; and apprehensions are not unreasonably excited lest we should have a new world to conquer before we have weapons for the warfare.»

Not exact matches

«The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning... As the number of her adherents diminishes... she will lose many of her social privileges... It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times.

Therefore, not making studies about this essentially leads to great controversy, and who started this controversy gets famous and rich because his books are sold to thousands of adherents for whom he sounds revealing, and even by non-adherents who need to read him before they can critically think about him.

Mind you, even the most strict adherents of low - carb advocates end up adding a small amount of rice, oatmeal and potatoes back into their diet when they start exercising or training.