Doctrine Quotes

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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of… — Karen Armstrong
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can… — Karen Armstrong
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one… — Henry Adams
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil. — Saint Basil
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord… — Ezra Taft Benson
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other… — Ezra Taft Benson
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. — Ambrose Bierce
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical… — Joseph Brodsky
Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with Israel, you are… — Herman Cain
Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make… — Tony Campolo
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. — Noam Chomsky
She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as… — John Henrik Clarke
Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions. — Edward Abbey
I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others. — Ayn Rand
It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole… — Gardner Murphy
The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most general to the… — John Hughlings Jackson
The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will… — Julian Huxley
This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for this… — John Nelson Darby

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