« All Doctrine Quotes · Thomas Jefferson's Page
Doctrine Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
- To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the…
- The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
- Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I…
- Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.
- I am a real Christian - that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.
- I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught…
- To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only…
- Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of…
- This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
- I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman…
More Doctrine Quotes
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition… — Henry Adams
- I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Joseph Brodsky
- Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with… — 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… — 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… — Noam Chomsky