Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“Since the day I was born, the world had told me I must accept whatever woth men assign me. And maybe, despite… — Xiran Jay Zhao Copy Share Image
At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ… — Robert Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the… — Georges Lemaitre Copy Share Image
And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the… — William Holmes McGuffey Copy Share Image
“Nothing is simpler than to make good poverty of ideas by founding a system, and even a good idea has little value… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“A doctrine like that of the Trinity tells us that the very life of God is a yielding or giving-over into the… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
“The first revolution is to transform the status of evaluation from untouchable to respectable , i.e., from the days a century ago… — Michael Scriven Copy Share Image
There are very few errors and false doctrines of which the beginning may not be traced up to unsound views about the… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
[Joseph Ratzinger] is a man who as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had everything in his… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We have a lot of villains in the world, all right? And the Catholic doctrine says turn the other cheek, the Christian… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The Republican party is not a church. It does not promulgate doctrine and then exclude those who fail to share it. But… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
I never thought it was right to call up a man and try him because he erred in doctrine, it looks too… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“It's not that we start with beliefs and doctrine and then come up with worship practices that properly "express" these (cognitive) beliefs;… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
A woman of faith is fearless. There is no ambiguity, no uncertain trump in her life. She can live a principled life… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History… — Anonymous Copy Share Image