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Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

— Amin Maalouf

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were…

— Madame de Stael

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual…

— Anonymous

In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most…

— Bart D. Ehrman

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the…

— Robert Rainy

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

— Honore de Balzac

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

— John Flavel

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or…

— Sigmund Freud

“Doctrines, though useful, are the product of analytical dissection; they recast the original, equivocal, historical material into abstract, less fully realized categories of meaning.…

— Andrew Davison

I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

HUMAN DOCTRINES TAKE US TO THE GRAVE BUT THE WORD OF GOD TAKE US OUT OF THE GRAVE

— Nii Odoi

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two…

— Samuel Johnson