Quotes About Doctrine

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

There will be no communism.

I am a believer and a conformist.

What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.

The Catholic religion doesn't have conspicuous symbols.

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

the medieval Doctrine of Signatures held that the shapes of plants constituted a broad hint from the Almighty as to their uses in healing.

Il est à peine besoin de dire, après cela, que le Taoïsme est particulièrement mal compris : on s'imagine y trouver toute sorte de choses, excepté la doctrine purement métaphysique qu'il est essentiellement en réalité…

On a généralement, en Europe, une tendance à s'exagérer l'importance du Bouddhisme, qui est certainement de beaucoup la moins intéressante de toutes les doctrines orientales, mais qui, précisément parce qu'il constitue pour l'Orient une déviation et une anomalie, peut sembler plus accessible à la mentalité occidentale et moins éloigné des formes de pensée auxquelles elle est accoutumée.

In Europe one generally has the tendency to exaggerate the importance of Buddhism, which is certainly the least interesting of all the Eastern doctrines, but which precisely because it constitutes a deviation and anomaly for the East can seem more accessible to the Western mentality and less foreign to its customary forms of thinking.

C'est une habitude constante de tous les schismes et de toutes les hérésies de quelque ordre que ce soit, de se présenter comme un retour à la pureté des origines.

If personal vengeance were the only factor I could, as you suggested, go and stick a knife in him and finish it, but that would be accepting the intolerable doctrine that man's sole responsibility is to his ego. That was the doctrine of Hitler, as it is now of Malenkov and Tito and Franco and Senator McCarthy; masquerading as a basis of freedom, it is the oldest and toughest of the enemies of freedom.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

The New Testament is not a simple, homogeneous body of doctrine. It is, rather, a chorus of diverse voices. These voices differ not only in pacing and intonation but also in the material content of their messages. No matter how devoutly we might wish it otherwise, we cannot hear these texts as a chorus speaking in unison.

As Zabelka remarked, the just war theory is "something that Christ never taught or even hinted at."6

Do you think none shall be saved but puritans(89)?

If only preaching be necessary, let us have none but preachers. What needs there, then, such a stir about government? But if discipline (in its place) be necessary too, what is it but enmity to men's salvation to exclude it?

Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict your doctrine, and lest you lay such stumbling–blocks before the blind, as may be the occasion of their ruin; lest you unsay with your lives, what you say with your tongues; and be the greatest hindrances of the success of your own labors. It

Sometimes, when doctrinal explanations have failed to move a sinner's heart, a biblical portrait of Jesus' beautiful love will bring him or her to salvation.

A doutrina homeopática viajou para a América onde, mais tarde, foi dissecada pelo doutor Oliver Wendell Holmes como "uma mistura confusa de engenhosidade perversa, falsa erudição, credulidade imbecil e hábil deturpação". Mesmo assim, seu criador morreu milionário, em Paris.

fundamentalist religion does. It refutes not by evidence but by authority