“The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine… — George F. Richards Copy Share Image
In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
According to which principle or hypothesis all the objections against the universality of Christ's death are easily solved; neither is it needful… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father, who loves us completely and perfectly, permits us to have experiences that will allow us to develop the traits… — James B. Martino Copy Share Image
It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The popular conception of any philosophical doctrine is necessarily imperfect, and very generally unjust. Lucretius is often alluded to as an atheistical… — Fleeming Jenkin Copy Share Image
Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Class consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God extends his grace to his people (and mankind in general) when he destroys the wicked, because in destroying the wicked, he… — Andrew Sandlin Copy Share Image
All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived… — William James Copy Share Image
According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is the view I call penal non-substitution, or the penal example view. (It is also called the Governmental View in textbooks… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
It’s a similar feeling from being in a community of punk rockers as a teenager and the feeling I still get today… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it.… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
There is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas or propaganda. On the one hand we… — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
Mormon leaders said in a statement they will reexamine their ties to the Boy Scouts. "The church," they said, "has always welcomed… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I certainly never believed, more or less, in the "essential doctrines" of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The law of love and compassion for all living creatures is again a doctrine to which we are all too ready to… — U Thant Copy Share Image
It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
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