It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree… — Gardner Murphy Copy Share Image
“They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people believe what they have… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies… — Harry Kalven Copy Share Image
People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I'd like to see atheism represented not only as an intelligent choice, but common sense. It shouldn't take years of study to… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The business of the believer with his Bible open is to pray, 'Lord, give me the meaning and spirit of your word,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
In some states, it is illegal to turn down a same-sex couple when you're placing children for adoption. That's discrimination. But in… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value,… — William James Copy Share Image
The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not… — Dalai Lama 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
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image