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Quotes About Doctrine

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
~ Andre Gide
A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.
~ David Brewster
It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.
~ Bill Gaede
One mans cult is another mans religion.
~ Annie Parisse
Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.
~ Sam Harris
Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.
~ Edith Hamilton
Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.
~ Mitt Romney
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
~ Bruce R. McConkie
Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.
~ William P. Young
There was no known cure for a Catholic education.
~ Lisa Scottoline
I'm not really a fan of organized religion.
~ Luke Grimes
I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.
~ Stephen Colbert
Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test
~ Brigham Young
The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
~ Daniel Webster
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
~ Elbert Hubbard
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.
~ Eric Hoffer
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
~ Francis Bacon
You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics
~ Jeri Massi
The Pope is barely Catholic enough for some converts.
~ John Ayscough
There was something called Christianity.
~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World