Quotes About Doctrine

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

I'm a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the thing that really drives the world is hedonism, the pleasure factor.

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

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

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals.

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

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.