Quotes About Doctrine

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking.

IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religion, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.

UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

Long and personal familiarity with the application of Scripture was a key element in the Puritan ministerial makeup," Sinclair Ferguson writes. "They pondered the riches of revealed truth the way a gemologist patiently examines the many faces of a diamond."[11] They used Scripture wisely, bringing cited texts to bear on the doctrine or case of conscience[12] at hand, all based on sound hermeneutical principles.

A pregação experimental enfatiza a necessidade de conhecermos as grandes verdades da Palavra de Deus por experiência pessoal. Também testa a nossa experiência pessoal pelas doutrinas da Bíblia. Leva a verdade ao coração para mostrar o que nós somos, onde estamos em nosso relacionamento com Deus, como precisamos ser curados e onde precisamos

The Puritans understood that the doctrines of atonement, justification, and reconciliation are meaningless apart from a true understanding of God who condemns sin, and atones for sinners, justifies them, and reconciles them to Himself.

eschatology cannot be excluded.

An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating from pure doctrine as any personal interpretation of Holy Scripture.

MEFISTOFELE Non posso darvi tutti i torti. So bene che cos'è questa dottrina. Leggi e giurisprudenza si trasmettono per eredità come un male perenne, si trascinano di generazione in generazione e passano inavvertitamente da un luogo a un altro. La ragione finisce nell'assurdità, il beneficio in un danno.

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

The life of doctrine is in application.

The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

The theory of price in the Talmud and the Codes in so far as it affected trade between Jew and Jew, is exactly parallel to the scholastic doctrine of justum pretium which was prevalent in Europe throughout the Middle Ages. But as between Jew and non-Jew, there was no just price. Price was formed, as it is today, by the "higgling of the market.

No concept of God independent of the reality of Jesus Christ may decide what is possible and impossible for God.

Mormons are taught to parrot the LDS Eighth Article: "We believe the Bible to be the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly." How does one know where it is not "translated correctly"? By very definition, that is wherever the Bible conflicts with Mormon doctrine (which is almost everywhere), in which case the latter is followed.

If every religious practice that was manadatory was voluntary, and every practice that was voluntary was mandatory, there would be no religions.

This sect (the Encyclopaedists) propagate with much zeal the doctrine of materialism, which prevails among the great and the wits; we owe to it partly that kind of practical philosophy which, reducing Egotism to a system, looks upon society as a war of cunning; success the rule of right and wrong, honesty as an affair of taste or decency: and the world as the patrimony of clever scoundrels.))

Subhuti asked: Will there be any beings in the future period, in the last time, in the last epoch, in the last five hundred years, at the time of collapse of the good doctrine who, when these words of the Sutra are being taught, will understand their truth?-The Lord replied: Do not speak thus Subhuti! Yes, even then there will be beings who, when these words of the Sutra are being taught, will understand their truth.

So, you may be thinking, if dualism is the view that there are two ultimate sorts of stuff, mind and matter, probably we also find a doctrine that says there is only matter, and another that holds that there is nothing but mind. And you're quite right. The first is called materialism, the second idealism (not mentalism), and both have plenty of history. The

The Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when . . . he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be held by the universal church is, by the divine assistance promised to him in Blessed Peter, possessed of that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer [Jesus] wills that His church should be endowed.