Doctrine Quotes · Page 11

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the…

— Benjamin Franklin

As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.

— Jonathan Falwell

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

— William Harvey

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has…

— Rajneesh

Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and…

— Georgius Agricola

“Doctrine is well enough for the wise, Jean; but the miracle is something we can hold in our hands and love.”

— Willa Cather

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by…

— Bede Griffiths

True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in…

— John Piper

SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge…

— Ambrose Bierce

Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine…

— John Selden

Believe in God, in His providence, in a future life, in the recompense of the good; in the punishment of the wicked;…

— Andre-Marie Ampere

There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in…

— Garry Wills

“The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible…

— Plato

And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude…

— George Pattison

[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization.…

— John Stott

That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought…

— Benjamin Franklin

Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless…

— Charles Spurgeon

“What we need today is men who take a stand on the Word of God and stop trying to fit in or…

— Pastor Steve Bainbridge

The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young…

— Hugh Miller

But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without…

— Pope Pius X

But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime…

— Hermann Hesse

Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev…

— Robert Davi

What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries…

— Richard Engel

It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.

— William Lane Craig

There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.

— Camille Flammarion

Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal…

— Albert Einstein

It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.

— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

— Edmund Barton

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure…

— Joseph Brodsky

One of the world’s great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part…

— Steven Emerson

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

— Ambrose Bierce

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

— Boyd K. Packer

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.

— Timothy Keller

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in…

— John Owen

This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

— Charles Hartshorne