In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the… — Edward Gibbon 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
Christianity is not a doctrine, not truth as truth, but the knowledge of a Person; it is knowing the Lord Jesus. You… — Theodore Austin-Sparks Copy Share Image
The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is!… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern… — Carlo Wolff Copy Share Image
Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin. — Howard Fast Copy Share Image
Some people think that the people they lead are too stupid to be told the truth, and thus they must be lied… — Zach McGowan Copy Share Image
The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to… — Stanley Hauerwas 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
Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman. — Edmund Barton 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
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
