The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
“For where this Self-love rules, Divines will study more to tune the Scriptures to their opinion, than their opinions to Scripture, and… — John Davenant Copy Share Image
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously… — John Milton Copy Share Image
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a… — Pope Clement VIII Copy Share Image
“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The notion of the enduring authority focuses on the fact that some people think that notions like authority of Scripture's is passé,… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
How could one comfort a disturbed person? He is already assailed with doubts about his faith. He would have to despair with… — C. F. W. Walther Copy Share Image
We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
The truths of Christianity are constant, unchanging, and meant for all people, times, and places. But the methods by which truth is… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in… — A. E. Waite Copy Share Image
... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly gave it triumph over the rabble of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the great things about having your own invisible god is you can make him/her/it as big and grand as your… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
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