Doctrine Quotes · Page 57

Mission [is] understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It [is] thus put in the context of the Trinity,…

— David Bosch

It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which…

— Samuel Johnson

And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than…

— Robert Boyle

Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal…

— Elliott Sober

Some, in their curiosity, will say, "But you Mormons have another Bible! Do you believe in the Old and New Testaments?" I…

— Brigham Young

I wouldn't tell the President [Barack Obama] or any other official, because we are disappointed by their behavior recently, because we expected…

— Bashar al-Assad

What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they…

— Albert Einstein

I think that there is an infinite creative force that generates all consciousness and all matter and we are all connected and…

— Russell Brand

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done…

— Ambrose Bierce

Solidarity...is a structural value of the social doctrine, as Blessed John Paul II reminded us.

— Pope Francis

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low…

— Sidney Hook

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

— Thomas Jefferson

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and…

— Paul Feyerabend

A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible…

— Plato

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political…

— Antonio Tabucchi

Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite…

— Loraine Boettner

Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines…

— Joan Robinson

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

— Pat Robertson

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he…

— Charles Hodge

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been…

— Amelia Bloomer

Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

— Mahatma Gandhi

At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that…

— Primo Levi

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

— William Harvey