"If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines……" — William Graham Sumner

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• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and… — Karen Armstrong
• Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines… — Karen Armstrong
• I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a… — Henry Adams
• I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was… — 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… — Ezra Taft Benson
• The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of… — 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… — Joseph Brodsky
• Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You… — Herman Cain
• Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by… — Tony Campolo
• Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound… — Noam Chomsky

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