Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work. — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the… — Josephus Daniels Copy Share Image
Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and… — William Howard Schuman Copy Share Image
In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Nimebadili utaratibu wangu siku hizi kutokana na maadili ya watoto wetu. Siongei na watoto wangu kuhusu Mungu. Naongea na Mungu kuhusu watoto… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“The doctrines of grace are not merely a philosophy which gives the best and most logical answers to the profound questions of… — Walter J. Chantry Copy Share Image
Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. Lower the Law and you… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine - fights less… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Our government denies that terrorism is caused by Islamic doctrine. Now, that is true, and it is a declarative statement. It's not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image