Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Therefore, let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Doctrine matters. What you believe about God, the gospel, the nature of man, and every major truth addressed in Scripture filters down… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
[Joseph Ratzinger] is a man who as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had everything in his… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It is the distinctive position of the Reformation with which, over against Rome, it stands or falls, that that which properly constitutes,… — Charles Porterfield Krauth Copy Share Image
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my… — Abraham H. Cannon Copy Share Image
Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Nature hates vacuum. Once a society is depleted of moral values, it creates a vacuum that will be filled by doctrines that… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Edwards, the dear old soul, who, if his doctrine is true, is now in heaven rubbing his holy hands with glee,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
“Since the day I was born, the world had told me I must accept whatever woth men assign me. And maybe, despite… — Xiran Jay Zhao Copy Share Image
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have a lot of villains in the world, all right? And the Catholic doctrine says turn the other cheek, the Christian… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about… — John Locke Copy Share Image
True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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