The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it,… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The moves to contractualism and utilitarianism required some extra ingredients besides mortalism, the denial that God is in charge of the world,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control… — Hutton Gibson Copy Share Image
The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I have no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my reason; no reverence for any book that teaches… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I think there has been an unfortunate tendency for a lot of different groups to forget that distinction between natural law and… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
After an inferior man has been taught a doctrine of superiority he will remain as inferior as he was before his lesson.… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that… — David Novak Copy Share Image
When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects… — Benjamin Hart Copy Share Image
As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be...… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“When “doctrinal integrity” (a term usually defined by those using it) trumps kindness and grace, faith has wandered out of bounds. Anything… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place,… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas; If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; Â… none… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered,… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Manifested Sons of God doctrine teaches that these Sons will be equal to Jesus Christ: immortal, sinless, perfected sons who have… — Bill Hamon Copy Share Image
A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe that very much of current Arminianism is simply ignorance of gospel doctrine; and if people began to study their Bibles,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
so long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows… — Anne Roe Copy Share Image
