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It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we should…
— Lucretia Mott
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But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.
— K.P. Yohannan
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When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from…
— Horace Bushnell
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Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be…
— Thomas Paine
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Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease…
— Sigmund Freud
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Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to…
— Sigmund Freud
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As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry,…
— Charles Hodge
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The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.
— Charles Hodge
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The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.
— Charles Hodge
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My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.
— Joy Harjo
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I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice…
— William Graham Sumner
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Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the…
— William Graham Sumner
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In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place
— Earl Warren
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Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called…
— Richard Baxter
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Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality.…
— Emile M. Cioran
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With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches…
— John Foxe
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The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was…
— Thomas Nixon Carver
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In the first section of the Doctrine and Covenants we read that 'the Lord shall come to recompense unto every man according to his work,…
— Mark E. Petersen
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The immense wealth of doctrine and institutions can become a handicap if we are trying to present all of that to a person who has…
— Raniero Cantalamessa
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Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
— Oswald Chambers
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