On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Anyone and anything can be a vehicle for the expression of God - but never contain the fullness of God. Therefore, the… — Thomas G. Bandy Copy Share Image
And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine… — George F. Richards Copy Share Image
In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I am a real Christian, that is to say, a cisciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
...never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly...… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we take seriously the word-flesh Christology of Chalcedon (i.e., the doctrine that Christ is fully human and fully divine) and view… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is… — Ellen Glasgow 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
If it hasn't already done so, the church... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values… — Doris Janzen Longacre Copy Share Image
I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image