I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines,… — Thomas Cooper Copy Share Image
Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
[T]he more the public is confused, the easier it falls prey to doctrines of pseudo-science which may at some future date recieve… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too -… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Mission [is] understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It [is] thus put in the context of the Trinity,… — David Bosch Copy Share Image
Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice;… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
O, let us understand that the power of Christianity lies not in a hazy indefiniteness, not in shadowy forms, not so much… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
We have the ability to take him [President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez] out, and I think the time has come that we… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of Redemption is one of the most important doctrines of the system of faith. A mistake on this point will… — John Hendryx Copy Share Image
Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The whole is always more, is more capable of a much greater variety of wave states, than the combination of its parts.… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine… — John Selden Copy Share Image
By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image