Doctrine Quotes · Page 7

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

— Girolamo Savonarola

In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

— Earl Warren

“Truth does not mean an idea, concept, or doctrine, but the true relationship.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

“Atheism is not a doctrine, it is a cry of wrath.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.

— R. A. Torrey

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

— Timothy Keller

I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is.

— George Voinovich

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

— Charles Spurgeon

We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our…

— Martin Luther

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

— Murray Kempton

To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

— John Newton

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

— John Rawls

Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war…

— Thomas Frank

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive…

— J. C. Ryle

I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least…

— Paul Schrader

Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity…

— Swami Vivekananda

I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him:…

— Martin Luther

Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which…

— St. Jerome

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious,…

— David Bennun

The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary…

— Timothy Keller

It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to…

— Christopher Durang

Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular…

— Fred Edwords

It is comparing apples and oranges to refer to the love that the Savior expressed for all mankind, for every person, for…

— Lance B. Wickman

A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that…

— George Trumbull Ladd

[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power…

— James Madison

“The apostle Paul often appears in Christian thought as the one chiefly responsible for the de-Judaization of the gospel and even for…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of…

— Clinton Rossiter

Regular reading of and talking about the Book of Mormon invite the power to resist temptation and to produce feelings of love…

— David A. Bednar

Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly…

— Russell Kirk

The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood…

— Wendell Berry

And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

— K.P. Yohannan

“The promise of signalling fosters a neglect of doctrine.”

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

— George MacDonald

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

— Georgia Harkness

The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.

— D. A. Carson

Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

— Kevin Vanhoozer

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

— William Gurnall

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

— Thomas Jefferson