Quotes About Doctrine

Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.

attributes. For Aquinas, God is "simple" in the sense of being in no way composed of parts (ST I.3).

We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our own history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.... There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine; and remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular.

Such freedom neither exists nor can be possible if that does not describe, with clarity of its limits in the context and concept of society's nature and religious doctrine. Just demanding freedom as a slogan is the collapse of maturity and disrespect of the majority system since no one can separate raindrops, which wherever fall and even absorb.

Training constitutes the bridge of discipline Knowledge educates the doctrine of humanity Maturity carries training and knowledge

Over time, these writings of the early church fathers and the decrees of popes and church councils became accepted truth in the same way the Bible was.

He heard ideas the mention of which — the thought of which — was prohibited in the society he represented. He often brought the newspaper Granma with him. It was the official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba. And he would ask us to give him our reaction to things it printed. We would show him the doctrinaire objectives of the newspaper and the fact that the news was not really informative.

This is the doctrine of justification. It is the wonderful fact that God imputes His righteousness to us and makes us immune to the condemnation of sin. Being justified, no sin can ever be imputed against us.

I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam.

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.

This radical Islam is a religious-based ideology. And you actually have to, when you deal with the ideology, you have to attack it on that basis.

I was born and raised Catholic.

I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.

The doctrine of marriage depends on Genesis being true. If there's an absolute authority, and if God's the Creator, He made one man and one woman. Jesus came and said that marriage is between a man and woman. If Genesis is not true, we're just animals, and marriage is just whatever you want to make it to be.

Everybody has a different definition of God. When people say, 'Do you believe?' I think they mean the Christian God. There are a lot of gods, so I think they cancel each other out.

There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions.

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

Neither can such a doctrine argue: it simply does not understand that other doctrines exist, can exist, it simply does not know how to imagine an opinion contrary to its own

With all willing we are dealing simply with commanding and obeying, on the foundation... of a social structure of many souls, which is why a philosopher should exercise the right to conceive willing itself under the horizon of morality: that is, morality understood as a doctrine of the power relations under which the phenomenon life emerges.

Christianity is a hangman's metaphysics…

One has deprived becoming of its innocence if being in this or that state is traced back to will, to intentions, to accountable acts: the doctrine of will has been invented essentially for the purpose of punishment, that is of finding guilty.