Today's Quote, March 9, 2007

"Principle is a better test of heresy than doctrine. Heretics are true to their principles but change to and fro, backwards and forwards in opinion; for very opposite doctrines may be exemplifications of the same principle. Thus the Antiochenes and other heretics sometimes were Arians, sometimes Sabellians, sometimes Nestorians, sometimes Monophysites, as if at random, from fidelity to their common principle that there is no mystery in theology. Thus Calvinists became Unitarians from the principle of private judgment. The doctrines of heresy are accidents and soon run to an end; its principles are everlasting."

-- John Henry Newman