Doctrine Quotes · Page 5

As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

— Alexander Pope

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

— William Ames

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.

— Barbara Tuchman

“Could I believe in the doctrine without believing in the deity?”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

— Michael Servetus

Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation

— Matt Chandler

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.

— John Calvin

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by…

— Harry S. Truman

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent,…

— George MacDonald

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

— H. L. Mencken

The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

— Thomas Jefferson

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

— Noam Chomsky

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

— Anonymous

[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws…

— Alexander Hamilton

Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or…

— Swami Vivekananda

May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to…

— Ashoka

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

“There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe;…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Elaine Pagels

“But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it…

— Albert Camus

Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in…

— Hans Hofmann

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,…

— Karen Armstrong

Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much…

— Henry Stephens Salt

Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine…

— John Rawls

I remember that grand word of the Katha Upanishad - Shraddhâ or marvellous faith. An instance of Shraddha can be found in…

— Swami Vivekananda

But the fact that Christ as the bridegroom brings forth fruit through me as the bride, through the agency of the indwelling…

— Francis Schaeffer

We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they…

— Joseph Priestley

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Christian religion and National Socialist doctrines are not compatible.

— Martin Bormann

Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology.

— R. A. Torrey

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

— Mason Cooley

The doctrine of Christ enjoins men, all brothers in His eyes, to love one another.

— Leon Bourgeois

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

— Saint Basil

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

— Ben Jonson

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

— Plutarch