The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed. — Anna Leonowens Copy Share Image
The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine” — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines… — William Carey Copy Share Image
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear… For this… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I think that these are the kinds of things that we can debate vigorously. We don't have to ultimately divide over them… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern… — Carlo Wolff Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been… — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
To find rest unto our souls includes peace of mind and heart, which is the result of learning and following the doctrine… — Per G. Malm Copy Share Image
Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future. — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin. — Howard Fast Copy Share Image
“Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse." ( History Will Teach Us Nothing )” — Sting Copy Share Image
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith. — Junius Copy Share Image
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps. — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works. — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
