Doctrine Quotes · Page 6

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation,

— Karl Barth

“Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

— Michel de Montaigne

If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

— Charles Spurgeon

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

— Henry Miller

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

— Ellen G. White

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

— Alfred North Whitehead

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

— Ayn Rand

The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

— Vance Havner

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the…

— Anonymous

Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions,…

— Ameen Rihani

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy…

— Thomas a Kempis

When a person does not know the doctrines of the Christian faith, he can easily be captured by false religions.

— Warren W. Wiersbe

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

— Bill Keller

What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too…

— Noam Chomsky

Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines…

— William Carey

I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear… For this…

— John Dewey

True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In…

— David O. McKay

There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my…

— C. S. Lewis

Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to…

— Dean Spade

But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I…

— Thomas Hobbes

[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization.…

— John Stott

A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and…

— H. L. Mencken

You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little.…

— Henry David Thoreau

I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word…

— Charles Spurgeon

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal…

— Albert Einstein

Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are…

— Voltaire

The Cabal is of two kinds, theoretical and practical, with the practical Cabala, which is engaged in the construction of talismans and…

— Albert Mackey

Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.

— George Orwell

I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.

— Joseph Lister

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

— Vernon A. Walters

The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God

— Andrew White

Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.

— Mason Cooley

Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.

— Mason Cooley

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

— Austin Osman Spare