Doctrine Quotes

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

I don't give a crap if you're a Tangent or a really smart llama. You're my friend and that's all that matters

The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.

Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of a lifetime and comes 'line upon line, precept upon precept.

Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.

Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord.

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.

There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.