Quotes About Doctrine

One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine.

Give me that old-time religion,It's good enough for me.

He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

I go for refuge to the Buddha.I go for refuge to the Doctrine.I go for refuge to the Order [of monks].

Carried about with every wind of doctrine.

The chief trouble with the Churches is that they cannot make the truth about this world fit in with their theology.

Christianity is distinguished by the remarkable characteristic that it is the only world religion which begins by discarding its own founders's creed.

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.

While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind.

Prosecutors use the conspiracy doctrine to punish two or more people who merely agree to commit a criminal act. They don't even have to actually perform the act; they just need to have agreed to do so.

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.

The only model to follow is pure Islam.

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.

Dad was a keen Roman Catholic, but I left the church when I was 17, not because I'd stopped believing - it was more doctrinal stuff, like that there was no biblical mention of purgatory. I went back when I was 28, just before I gave up drink.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

I don't know how you talk about the founding of America, and what became of the United States, without talking about religious doctrine.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

I believe in a core set of fundamental Republican values.

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'

I've about given up on the fundamentalists, who have become so legalistic and letter-bound to the Bible.

My first memories are of picketing ex-servicemen's funerals and telling their families they were going to burn in hell.

Religion suppresses curiosity.