Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life. — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief. — Alan Keightley Copy Share Image
It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television. — Michael Ramsey Copy Share Image
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience. — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
There is a statement often repeated in the Church, and while it is not in one of the Standard Church Works, it… — LeGrand Richards Copy Share Image
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“It holds almost universally in the history of the church, that until a doctrine has been fully discussed in a controversial way… — William Cunningham Copy Share Image
Men had made, we believe, fundamental changes in the doctrines, purposes, and practices of the Pristine Gospel and Church. There had been… — Lowell L. Bennion Copy Share Image
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Think about how much of your Bible, Old and New Testaments, is in the form not of doctrinal statements but of stories.… — Layton Talbert Copy Share Image
“The original Christians regarded the deposit of faith, as finally inseparable from the very living substance of the Gospel in the saving… — Thomas F. Torrance Copy Share Image
There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on! — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“Incarceration seems to have been obtained in consequence of Mrs. Packard using her reason and, not as reported, by her losing her… — Emily Mann Copy Share Image
Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
