Doctrine Quotes

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be anathema [excommunicated]

Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.

It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.

Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.

What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

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.

To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.

When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.

True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day, month after month.

Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it.

So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.

To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

When a person does not know the doctrines of the Christian faith, he can easily be captured by false religions.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world.

The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

Only the continuous and steady application of the methods for suppressing a doctrine, etc., makes it possible for a plan to succeed.

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.