My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines.… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a… — Peter J. McGuire Copy Share Image
I never feel to force my doctrine upon any person; I rejoice to see prejudice give way to truth, and the traditions… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
We may have much that worries us, and we may find many reasons to be concerned. Yet, as President Spencer W. Kimball… — Cecil O. Samuelson Copy Share Image
The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
It’s a similar feeling from being in a community of punk rockers as a teenager and the feeling I still get today… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
There is the view I call penal non-substitution, or the penal example view. (It is also called the Governmental View in textbooks… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived… — William James Copy Share Image
All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
God extends his grace to his people (and mankind in general) when he destroys the wicked, because in destroying the wicked, he… — Andrew Sandlin Copy Share Image
“Class consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“[God] does not bind the ancient folk to outward doctrine as if they were learning their ABC's.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.” — Cathryn Louis Copy Share Image
Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
The doctrine/dogma existed yesterday, it still exists today and will exist tomorrow. The world stands on its strength. The day it ends,… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a doctrine, not truth as truth, but the knowledge of a Person; it is knowing the Lord Jesus. You… — Theodore Austin-Sparks Copy Share Image
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree. — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image