Doctrine Quotes · Page 13

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New…

— Thomas Paine

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

— Joseph Priestley

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition…

— Henry Adams

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how…

— Paul Wolfowitz

Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.

— Justin Martyr

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

— Bernard Crick

If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.

— Philip Yancey

A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or…

— Frederick Pollock

Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those…

— Anonymous

A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to…

— Albert Mohler

No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during…

— Roger Brooke Taney

I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror…

— George S. Patton

Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by…

— Aldo Leopold

“I hear people say, "Doctrine divides." Of course doctrine divides, but it also unites. It unites the ones who love God's truth…

— R.C. Sproul

Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of…

— Thomas Nixon Carver

“The doctrine stating signs and wonders are no longer needed because we have the Bible was created by people who hadn’t seen…

— Bill Johnson

So important , indeed, is it (Light), and so much does it pervade with its influence the whole Masonic system, that Freemasonry…

— Albert Mackey

A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification.…

— Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the…

— Eduardo Galeano

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith…

— Swami Vivekananda

“But to return to the sermons. Edwards’s sermons are constructed, in general, on a definite model. We have, first, the Exposition of…

— Jonathan Edwards

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

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare…

— Ephrem the Syrian

“We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.”

— Steve Turner

The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is…

— H. L. Mencken

“Doctrine without its correspondent principle remains barren, if not lifeless, of which the Greek Church seems an instance; or”

— John Henry Newman

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

— Samuel Johnson

At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.

— Tony Dungy

My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given…

— Buddha

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

— William Gurnall

My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our…

— Joy Harjo

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

— Steven Pinker

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

— Jerry Fodor

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

— Steven Pinker

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

— John Flavel