“when you say, “Doctrine doesn’t matter; what matters is that you live a good life,” that is a doctrine. It is called… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The problem that faces us is the problem of awakening. What we lack is not an ideology or doctrine that will save… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
I think that there is an infinite creative force that generates all consciousness and all matter and we are all connected and… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“In the doctrine of the Trinity,” wrote Herman Bavinck, “beats the heart of the whole revelation of God for the redemption of… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that… — Floyd Red Crow Westerman Copy Share Image
The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You will realize that doctrines are inventions of the human mind, as it tried to penetrate the mystery of God. You will… — Pelagius Copy Share Image
“In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
These Muslim Brotherhood fronts - the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America -… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
“But to return to the sermons. Edwards’s sermons are constructed, in general, on a definite model. We have, first, the Exposition of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification.… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
So important , indeed, is it (Light), and so much does it pervade with its influence the whole Masonic system, that Freemasonry… — Albert Mackey Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;... but it is… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I have observed one thing among true Christians in their differences in many countries: What divides and severs true Christian groups and… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The level of vitriol against Jews and Christianity within contemporary Islam, unfortunately, is something that we are not totally cognizant of, or… — Steven Emerson Copy Share Image
“I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no doctrine more fundamental to our work than the Atonement of Jesus Christ. At every appropriate opportunity, testify of the… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image