No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Doctrine matters. What you believe about God, the gospel, the nature of man, and every major truth addressed in Scripture filters down… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Therefore, let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a craptastic corporate media,… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Creflo Dollar is compromising, confusing or outright contradicting essential Christian doctrine. Joel Osteen does exactly the same thing. Now, not necessarily the… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
It is often thought that the Buddha's doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, or if… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational,… — William Jones Copy Share Image
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God;… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support.… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Is it our task to force the biblical doctrine of God to answer to modern culture, or (is it our task) to… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The doctrine stating signs and wonders are no longer needed because we have the Bible was created by people who hadn’t seen… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of… — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
“I hear people say, "Doctrine divides." Of course doctrine divides, but it also unites. It unites the ones who love God's truth… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“All of our faith and practice arise out of the drama of Scripture, the “big story” that traces the plot of history… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms… — Paris Reidhead Copy Share Image
The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living,… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image