Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in… — A. E. Waite Copy Share Image
... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
“when you say, “Doctrine doesn’t matter; what matters is that you live a good life,” that is a doctrine. It is called… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“The administrative and hierarchic aspects seem to be crucial in the evolution of belief systems. The truth is first revealed to all… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The truths of Christianity are constant, unchanging, and meant for all people, times, and places. But the methods by which truth is… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“For where this Self-love rules, Divines will study more to tune the Scriptures to their opinion, than their opinions to Scripture, and… — John Davenant Copy Share Image
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. It holds a specific view of God, which is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel.… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and… — James P. Cannon Copy Share Image
It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image