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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal
to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors,
since all men are equal, but he does not admit that
he has no social inferiors,
for, from the time of Jefferson onward,
the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards,
not downwards.
- Bertrand Russell
Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high
shelf where the children can not reach it.
- Walter Rauschenbusch
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Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine
of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
- John Polkinghorne
Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine
of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.
- Thomas Goodwin
As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine,
an amendment to the Constitution should be the last
resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.
- Arlen Specter
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven,
which was the main teaching of Jesus,
is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines
that ever stirred and changed human thought.
- H. G. Wells
Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ;
of which I myself am not ashamed.
- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy,
but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
- Immanuel Kant
They're after one world religion and one world government.
That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly,
to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.
- Hutton Gibson
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful,
including what is ugly.
- Ambrose Bierce
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of
holy magnificence and holy modesty;
round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
- Charles Williams
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world.
Logic is transcendental.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi -
that numbers confer unlimited rights,
that they take from some persons all rights over themselves,
and vest these rights in others.
- Auberon Herbert
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there
exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple,
absolute essentials in religion.
- Julia Ward Howe
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for.
There is all the difference in the world.
- Tony Benn
First, then, State Socialism, which may be described
as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should
be managed by the government,
regardless of individual choice.
- Benjamin Tucker
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda,
is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine,
but to kill a man.
- Michael Servetus
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, to the exclusion of the people.
- Charles Hodge
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,
but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The only question which any wise man can ask himself,
and which any honest man will ask himself,
is whether a doctrine is true or false.
- Thomas Huxley
The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.
- Ellen G. White
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus
Christ as a personal friend.
His is not a creed, a mere doctrine,
but it is He Himself we have.
- Dwight L. Moody
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution
to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing
about how wealth is created.
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am
strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights,
for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.
- Benjamin F. Wade
I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
- Vernon A. Walters
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself,
but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid
being deceived by false doctrines.
- Simone Weil
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
The great exemplars are the poets of action,
and it makes little difference whether they be forces
for good or forces for evil.
- Henry Miller
If someone doesn't know their Old Testament,
they don't know right doctrine, right correction,
and they can't be equipped for good works.
- Randall Terry
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties,
namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money,
the poor because they had much.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The lived experiences which could not find adequate
scientific expression in the substance doctrine of
rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.
- Wilhelm Dilthey
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their
ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free
people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
- Harlan Stone
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not,
at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with
every weapon of communal stupidity.
- Robertson Davies
To compel the nation with challenge the traditional
American doctrine of freedom of the seas,
every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.
- Josephus Daniels
We conclude that in the field of public education the
doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place.
- Earl Warren
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the
general doctrine of association of ideas,
and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
- Joseph Priestley
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong
that we have the power to stop,
and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
- Anna Sewell
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine
of the consent of the governed,
and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle
that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
- Leland Stanford
Many a doctrine is like a window pane.
We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
- Khalil Gibran
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense,
or have been, at any time, free and equal,
is an utterly baseless fiction.
- Thomas Huxley
So you're quite right that when...
as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe,
we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.
- E. Howard Hunt
The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the
unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons
who are coequal in power,
nature, and eternity.
- Walter Martin
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information
from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas
of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
- Walter Martin
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith,
is a mystery.
- William Gurnall
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the
Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working
proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
- Henry Brooks Adams
When a person is determined to believe something,
the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
- Junius
Among the southern tribes, on the contrary,
hats were sometimes worn in the dance,
although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine.
- James Mooney
There are times in history where a particular doctrine
becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
- Pat Robertson
What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive
strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was
to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.
- Louis Farrakhan
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law.
What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
- Junius
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a
blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
- Steven Pinker
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is,
on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.
- Joseph Brodsky
Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the
doctrine of the Holy Spirit,
by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.
- Robert Rainy
This Republic was called into being,
organized,
and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
- Caleb Cushing
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism
was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
- Francis Parker Yockey
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave.
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
- Tertullian
Now since France has three times in sixty years failed
to obtain practical results from Political revolutions,
all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social
doctrine to regulate the future.
- Lajos Kossuth
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree.
They are on the left and right.
They are not confined to a single part of the society.
They are terrorists of the mind.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam;
but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact
that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
- Walter Kaufmann
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the
Church today than to convey the impression that a revival
is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged
by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
- Billy Sunday
What I've deduced from Obama's teleprompter is this:
The Obama Doctrine is,
essentially, that America sucks.
Everything is our fault.
And to go forward, we must castrate everything that has kept us secure,
because, y'know, we wouldn't want to continue to be safe and strong anymore,
right?
- Doug Giles
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree.
We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine
of divine predestination -
the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
- Charles Spurgeon
The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis
of unproven assertions without evidence;
he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history;
and he failed to build a true international coalition.
- Nancy Pelosi
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine
gives a new value to human nature,
to human history and to human life which is not to
be found in the other great oriental religions.
- Christopher Dawson
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants
to reduce the priest to a mere functionary,
a managing director, where administration rather than
doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.
- Arthur Middleton
A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine.
He will never deny new revelation.
He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full,
or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever
intended to be given to man.
- Orson Pratt
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt,
it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance.
Transit from the unpopular, is easy...
but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and
rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
- Lord Melbourne
Here in America we are descended in blood
and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels.
Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
As their heirs, may we never confuse
honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power,
whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism,
and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
- Angelina Grimke
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