Doctrine Quotes

“the doctrine of non-attachment.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Dogma will always defend itself.

— Peter Marley

Doctrine does matter.

— R. C. Sproul

“The word of God is a divine doctrine.”

— Lailah Gifty, Akita

I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

— William Shakespeare

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

— John Stott

Sound doctrine is sound politics.

— Morton Blackwell

Discipline is an index to doctrine.

— Tertullian

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.

— Neal A. Maxwell

“(28) “Doctrine draws on the lessons of history”

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”

— Rupertus Meldenius

No religious doctrine shall be established by law.

— Elbridge Gerry

The world is a testament to impermanence and uncertain futures, enjoy this day.

— Devin Waugh

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

— Horace Greeley

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I believe in GOD. (GOD = Getting Over Dogma).

— Rock Cowles

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

— Flannery O'Connor

The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.

— John Andreas Widtsoe

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since…

— Madame de Stael

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the…

— Josephus Daniels

Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

— Max Anders

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

— James A. Garfield

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and…

— James P. Cannon

Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is…

— Gautama Buddha

Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel.…

— Boyd K. Packer

When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More…

— Anonymous

A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would…

— Noam Chomsky

When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine…

— Charles Darwin

I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate,…

— Gautama Buddha

It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to…

— Ronald Knox

“The administrative and hierarchic aspects seem to be crucial in the evolution of belief systems. The truth is first revealed to all…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church…

— Pope Pius XII

“The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ…

— Robert Ingersoll

Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,…

— Hannes Alfven

And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say…

— Thomas Hobbes

Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far…

— John Stuart Mill

Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They…

— William J. Brennan

“when you say, “Doctrine doesn’t matter; what matters is that you live a good life,” that is a doctrine. It is called…

— Timothy J. Keller