Doctrine Quotes

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.

It is because the doctrine of human unity based on the spiritual oneness of all beings, is not propagated in the right manner that we have today many divisions leading to many conflicts.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

Discipline is an index to doctrine.

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.

The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.

Sound doctrine is sound politics.

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.

How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.

Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.

I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

The life of doctrine is in application.

By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.

Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us.

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.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature.

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.

Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology.

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.