It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
I am a real Christian, that is to say, a cisciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Anyone and anything can be a vehicle for the expression of God - but never contain the fullness of God. Therefore, the… — Thomas G. Bandy Copy Share Image
Many people are being persuaded that they cannot be considered intelligent or well educated if they insist on the doctrine of the… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines:… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the human soul, but… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a "thing"; he needs a special… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“Christians—who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism—often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for “new” theologies, “new” ways… — Gene Edward Veith Copy Share Image
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is,… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
"Who are we to say what is right and what is wrong?" is the common refrain under the doctrine of pure pluralism.… — Benjamin Hart Copy Share Image
Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A… — J. D. Greear Copy Share Image
When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
