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
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
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. — Tertullian 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
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
Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life. — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be...… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“When “doctrinal integrity” (a term usually defined by those using it) trumps kindness and grace, faith has wandered out of bounds. Anything… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects… — Benjamin Hart Copy Share Image
As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
The notion of the enduring authority focuses on the fact that some people think that notions like authority of Scripture's is passé,… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a… — Pope Clement VIII Copy Share Image
“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“And then our late grand controversy, concerning the qualifications necessary for admission to the privileges of members in complete standing in the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to… — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate. — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
Think on this doctrine,-that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute... — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
How is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“Every martial art, from T’ai Chi Chuan to the nuclear deterrent, is based on a doctrine—an idea of how combat works.” — Guy Windsor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind. — John Newton Copy Share Image
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image