Quotes About Doctrine

But the senses never have much chance, against the power of doctrine.

But the senses never have much chance, against the power of doctrine. "Well," the man on the ground says, "I'm sticking it to the old bastard now!

For all who have tried to know Jesus without Christ, many of the core church teachings offered a disembodied Christ without any truly human Jesus, which was the norm for centuries in doctrine and in art. Art is the giveaway of what people really believe at any one time.

Jesus himself says, "Do not believe those who say 'Lord, Lord' " (Matthew 7:21, Luke 6:46, italics added). He says it is those who "do it right" that matter, not those who "say it right." Yet verbal orthodoxy has been Christianity's preoccupation, at times even allowing us to burn people at the stake for not "saying it right.

We were largely taught what to believe instead of how to believe.

someone with access to an inner source of spiritual insight does not need the church—or does not need it as ordinary people do. Furthermore, such a person often has an inner authority lacking in many leaders of established religions. This was precisely the response Jesus evoked when he began to preach: "And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority and not as the scribes" (Mark 1:22).

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

just as the Monroe Doctrine gave the same rights to the USA in South America.

ToÈ›i selecteaz? ce vor din înv???tura Bisericii È™i ignor? ceea ce nu le convine.

passages proved the correctness of Protestant teaching.

The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

I'm connected to religion and that's how I access God. I'm in a relationship with God that can sometimes be informed by religion, but not dependent on religion.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.

The separation of religion from the practical affairs of society is a convenient doctrine for those who fear that social change would threaten of modify their own political and social self-interest.

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

According to this doctrine, man's destiny—both mortal and immortal—depended, not upon the existence of a soul before birth or after death nor upon the whim of a spiritual force, but upon his own good words and good deeds.

the message or the word regarding His way is the gospel.

The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.

Descartes himself, as one will recall, experienced great difficulty in overcoming his celebrated doubts, and was able to do so only by way of a tortuous argument which few today would find convincing. Is it not strange that tough-minded scientists should have so readily, and for so long, espoused a rationalist doctrine which calls in question the very possibility of empirical knowledge?

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence ... and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

Si no crees en mi Dios de amor y justicia, te mato!