At the Feet of a Jealous God

"But the common saying, expressed in various ways and attributed to various authors, must be recalled with approval: 'in essentials, unity; in doubtful matters, liberty; in all things, charity.'

On the Origin of the Sentence: 'In necessariis unitas, in non-necessariis (or, dubiis) libertas, in utrisque (or, omnibus) caritas.' This famous motto of Christian Irenics, which I have slightly modified in the text, is often falsely attributed to St. Augustin (whose creed would not allow it, though his heart might have approved of it), but is of much later origin.

The authorship has recently been traced to RUPERTUS MELDENIUS an otherwise unknown divine, and author of a remarkable tract in which the sentence first occurs.

'Many contend for the corporal presence of Christ who have not Christ in their hearts.'

'Nimium altercando amittitur Veritas- By too much controversy about the truth, we are in danger of losing the truth itself.'"
---source Steve Perisho of Georgetown University