Doctrine Quotes · Page 22

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

— Horace Bushnell

“The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained,…

— Thomas C. Oden

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant

— Francis Parker Yockey

The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of…

— Clement Attlee

If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be…

— Justinian I

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct…

— George Eliot

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

— John Polkinghorne

So dogma, doctrine, unexamined assumptions, that's what it is to be sharing that, the hippies shadow, no way of grounding it to…

— Rebecca Goldstein

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place…

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's…

— Mickey Kaus

You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into…

— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity…

— Elaine Pagels

As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they…

— Henry David Thoreau

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine…

— Oswald Chambers

Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and…

— Arthur Koestler

If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

You will realize that doctrines are inventions of the human mind, as it tried to penetrate the mystery of God. You will…

— Pelagius

The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based…

— Jedediah M. Grant

It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to…

— Nhat Hanh

I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that…

— Floyd Red Crow Westerman

“In the doctrine of the Trinity,” wrote Herman Bavinck, “beats the heart of the whole revelation of God for the redemption of…

— Michael S. Horton

Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord.

— Richard G. Scott

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care…

— Maria Mitchell

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

— John Lancaster Spalding

The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

— Paul Stewart

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

— Florence Nightingale

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

— Matthew Carter

Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity.

— Tad R. Callister

I would say that the key doctrine of the Sanders administration would be no, we cannot continue to do it alone; we…

— Bernie Sanders

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Possessing a correct interpretation of each individual doctrine is not sufficient; we must also learn to hold each doctrine in harmony with…

— Paul Washer

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

— Victor Ponta

Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

— Michael Pollan

The modern concept of separation is an argument for a total separation of religion from the state. The consequence of the acceptance…

— Francis Schaeffer

The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx,…

— Bernard Lazare

“The doctrine stating signs and wonders are no longer needed because we have the Bible was created by people who hadn’t seen…

— Bill Johnson