The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin. — George C. Homans Copy Share Image
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and… — Hugh Latimer Copy Share Image
A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
As you go forth and share our core beliefs and the fruits of our doctrines, misperceptions will dissolve, prejudices will diminish, and… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when… — John Owen Copy Share Image
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I have observed one thing among true Christians in their differences in many countries: What divides and severs true Christian groups and… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The biblical doctrine of hell reshapes all our thinking about the future of this world and its inhabitants.” — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people. — Diana Butler Bass Copy Share Image
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy. — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image