Quotes About Doctrine

evangelical Christians

orthodox claim of scriptural inerrancy and reliability.

rigid evangelical position.

ABC, one woman offered. Assure, Believe, Convert. Correct, Langdon said. Religions assure salvation; religions believe in a perecise theology; and religions convert nonbelievers.

New World Order," Langdon repeated, "based on scientific enlightenment. They called it their Luciferian Doctrine.

Assure. Believe. Convert. Religions assure salvation; religions believe in a precise theory; and religions convert nonbelievers.

Religion cannot claim morality as its own...

Everyone respects those who live by a code . - Luis Avila

The Shrike Temple had used androids extensively, complying with the Church of the Shrike doctrine which proclaimed that androids were free from original sin, therefore spiritually superior to humankind and—incidentally—exempt from the Shrike's terrible and inevitable retribution.

We don't want to know a way to live that works well. We want to know the one right way.

The strangest of all the doctrines of the cult of competition, in which admittedly there must be losers as well as winners, is that the result of competition is inevitably good for everybody, that altruistic ends may be met by a system without altruistic motives or altruistic means.

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.

the doctrine better formulated than by Plato himself in another dialogue, Gorgias (483 f), where the Sophist Callicles denounces morality as an invention of the weak to neutralize the strength of the strong.

the development of the Christian ethic slowly eroded Christian theology. Christ destroyed Jehovah.

Knowledge is power, not mere argument or ornament; it is not an opinion to be held... but a work to be done; and I... am laboring to lay the foundation not of any sect or doctrine, but of utility and power.

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

President Franklin Roosevelt failed in his effort to pack the Court in 1937, but in the midst of that battle the Court significantly altered its constitutional doctrine in a way that served to placate its opponents.

So there are no nontheologians; there is just good theology and bad theology.

The Bible's concern is not if we shall believe but what we shall believe.

Christianity has a basic content, and that content matters.

There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.

He believes in No-God, and he worships him," said a colleague of mine of a student who was manifesting a fine atheistic ardor; and the more fervent opponents of Christian doctrine have often enough shown a temper which, psychologically considered, is indistinguishable from religious zeal.

the Christian churches of Armenia, Lebanon and Egypt are still Monophysite today.

He talked about the party line the way Catholics talk about the Immaculate Conception