Quotes About Doctrine

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

Mormonism is a male religion, a dream of prophets and patriarchs.

I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God.

The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.

Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.

Pensar como espiritualistas, agir como materialistas. Não é absurda a doutrina: é, afinal, a doutrina espontânea da humanidade inteira.

Há tres maneiras de ser situacionista, isto é, de ser partidario de qualquer situação política. A primeira é a conformidade por dotrina; a segunda a conformidade por aceitação; a terceira a conformidade por não-oposição. Deixo de parte uma das mais vulgares - a conformidade por vantagem [...]. A conformidade por indiferença vale por adesão por só não ser hostilização.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

The drift away from the Bible has weakened the church.

Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of siege. So, we should help both Westerners and Muslims get rid of that sense by easing their political tensions and by fostering dialogue between them.

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

We can put a stake through the heart of Islamic State as an army. We can put a stake through the heart of its leaders. You can take away its territory. But you can't put a stake through the heart of the ideas, of the ideology, that sadly, tragically, still has some attraction for some small numbers in the Islamic faith.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.