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
“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
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
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
Even if the civil magistrate is so gifted as to prophesy in the church, yet in the sphere of his civil duties… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
the word 'justification' has itself had a chequered career over the course of many centuries of debate. As the major historian of… — Anonymous 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
It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of… — Donald Livingston Copy Share Image
The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
After an inferior man has been taught a doctrine of superiority he will remain as inferior as he was before his lesson.… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
I think there has been an unfortunate tendency for a lot of different groups to forget that distinction between natural law and… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
I have no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my reason; no reverence for any book that teaches… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
We don't teach from Books of the Bible because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't offer different kinds of… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them;… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The poor wretches have convinced themselves that they are going to be immortal and live for all time, by worshipping that crucified… — Lucian Copy Share Image
He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The immense wealth of doctrine and institutions can become a handicap if we are trying to present all of that to a… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
“Those who abdicate the empire of reason and permit their wills to wander in pursuit of reflections in the Astral Light, are… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
You can't go to church without praying ten or fifteen times for God to have mercy on you. You can't sing "Amazing… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
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![“[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused myself with making experiments on the fixed air [carbon dioxide] which I found ready made in the process of fermentation . When I removed from that house I was under the…” quote by Joseph Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/42a/joseph-priestley-17782_air_the-doctrine-of-air-i-was-led-into-in-co_74416.png)
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![“According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these…” quote by Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a9d/gottfried-leibniz-3585_almighty_according-to-their-newton-and-his-follow_2699354.png)
