Quotes About Doctrine

This doctrine vastly expanded judicial discretion and opened a loophole large enough to tolerate many trusts.

Belief in the irrational is one definition of faith, but it is also true that clinging to absurd or disputed doctrines binds a community of faith together and defines a barrier to the outside world.

keep a person on the Scientology path," Hubbard once told one of his associates, "feed him a mystery sandwich.

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Is Christ being offensive when he says that he is the only way to God? Judging by the number of people who are offended, you'd better believe it! Is Christ being exclusive? That's a different question.

No cardinal or essential doctrine is altered by any textual variant that has plausibility of going back to the original. The evidence for that has not changed to this day.

literature enlarges our world of experience to include both more of the physical world and things not yet imagined, giving the "actual world" a "new dimension of depth" (Lewis, Of Other Worlds 29). This makes it possible for literature to strip Christian doctrines of their "stained glass" associations and make them appear in their "real potency" (37), a possibility Lewis himself realized in the Narnia series and the space trilogy.

So I believe then that the primary motive, the most intelligible motive of the doctrine of eternal return in Nietzsche is to make intelligible nature as humanly willed and not given. And the whole difficulty in Nietzsche's philosophy, I believe, is concentrated in this point.

By virtue of being an -ism, pluralism is a monism.

It was against 'history,' against the belief that 'history' can decide any question, that progress can ever make superfluous the discussion of the primary questions [...] that [Nietzsche] reasserted hypothetically the doctrine of eternal return.

Every central doctrine of the Nazi politics, racism included, is an expression or variant of the theory of collectivism. Such doctrines cannot rise to the ascendancy, neither among the intellectuals nor in the mind of the public, except in a culture already saturated with a mystical-collectivist philosophy. In the case of Germany, this means: saturated with the ideas of Hegel.

This is the Nazi doctrine (also adapted from the Marxists) of polylogism.

How many Nicodemites are there in every corner of Christianity whose versitis has caused them to be more committed to words than to the Word Made Flesh? How many have made a religion of words and lost sight of God's Image-Made-Story?

He would point to some spot or other near the latrines. "There," he would say, pushing a bit of bread about inside his mouth, "on the sixth of February at five o'clock in the afternoon I began my memorable discussion with Professor K. on the ramifications of Leibniz's doctrine of monads in the thought of our day.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

It is because the doctrine of human unity based on the spiritual oneness of all beings, is not propagated in the right manner that we have today many divisions leading to many conflicts.

A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.

One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.