Doctrines Quotes

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The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have… — Lynne Truss
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting… — Sam Harris
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character â€“ not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one… — Brandon Sanderson
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy.… — Karen Armstrong
Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. — Flannery O'Connor
Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the… — C.S. Lewis
A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds… — Benjamin Franklin
Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of… — Irvin D. Yalom
The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair… — D. A. Carson
Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity — Austin Osman Spare
Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions… — U.G. Krishnamurti
...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines. — Paul Tillich
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. — William Graham Sumner
The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this… — Bernard Crick
All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since… — Mark Twain
The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this reason I do… — John Dewey
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system… — Noam Chomsky
The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When doctrines divide and "isms" turn human against human, without speech, without silence, let us demonstrate. Let these demonstrations manifest everywhere. Not what we think… — Samuel L. Lewis

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