Doctrine Quotes

Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

My doctrine is as I've described, which is confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.

Throughout [Barack] Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.

There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.

Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a lunatic.

What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.

To find rest unto our souls includes peace of mind and heart, which is the result of learning and following the doctrine of Christ.

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.

Solidarity...is a structural value of the social doctrine, as Blessed John Paul II reminded us.

It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.

In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.

Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.

The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.

Doctrine does matter.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch,Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill.Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch,And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill.

Our government denies that terrorism is caused by Islamic doctrine. Now, that is true, and it is a declarative statement. It's not arguable.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out the relation of the religious concept to physical fitness.

One of the world’s great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine.

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.

It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.

The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom.

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.

At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

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.

In one sense the doctrine of the trinity is a mystery that we will never understand fully.

The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of civilization.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.

If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.