Doctrine Quotes · Page 3

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

— Mason Cooley

The doctrine of Christ enjoins men, all brothers in His eyes, to love one another.

— Leon Bourgeois

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

— Saint Basil

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

— Ben Jonson

We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.

— Josemaria Escriva

Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

— William Ames

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or…

— Shunryu Suzuki

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

— William Ellery Channing

“Incarceration seems to have been obtained in consequence of Mrs. Packard using her reason and, not as reported, by her losing her…

— Emily Mann

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

— Tertullian

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole…

— Charles Williams

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.

— Michael Ramsey

What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too…

— Noam Chomsky

You can describe Christianity and you can also describe liberalism. Christianity has certain beliefs, tenets, doctrines. Not all Christians are always living…

— Ann Coulter

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

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

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

Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to…

— Dean Spade

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

The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear… For this…

— John Dewey

If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not…

— C. S. Lewis

I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the…

— Benito Mussolini

Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a…

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have…

— Charles Spurgeon

For I choose to follow not men or men's doctrines, but God and the doctrines [delivered] by Him. For if you have…

— Justin Martyr

Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.

— Barbara Tuchman

As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

— Alexander Pope

“Could I believe in the doctrine without believing in the deity?”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.

— John Calvin

Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation

— Matt Chandler

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

— Michael Servetus

Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

— Edmund Spenser

But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

— Robert H. Jackson