Quotes About Doctrine

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

Neo-liberal market fundamentalism was always a political doctrine serving certain interests. It was never supported by economic theory. Nor, it should now be clear, is it supported by historical experience.

the value of Christian faith is not in the one believing, but in the One who is believed in, its object.

Sistema legal: Basado en el Código de Derecho Canónico. Aunque no se aplica oficialmente desde 1868, sigue vigente la pena de muerte.

Thankfully, we are not left to our own devices, even if it feels like it. The Church clearly teaches us about what is sinful and what isn't, and our duties. We simply must catechize ourselves in the Traditional Catholic Faith.

I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God.

My faith, and especially my faith as a Catholic, does inform me and does guide me.

As you know, divorce is still not allowed in the Catholic Church. But here insert a large 'however' - she is liberal in the granting of annulments.

The institution of religion is important.

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

We read the whole Bible, cover to cover, over and over again... It wasn't that we read selective parts of the Bible. It was that we interpreted it in this very selective way.

To his colleagues' dismay, Cotton did not completely agree with the others on doctrine, and Hutchinson "did conceive that we were not able ministers of the gospel," the Salem minister Hugh Peter lamented. In sum, "she was a woman not only difficult in her opinions, but also of an intemperate spirit.

We sometimes look among our numbers to find one to whom we can point who agrees with us, so we can have company to justify our apostasy. We rationalize by saying that someday the Church doctrine will catch up with our way of thinking. Truth is not established by Gallup polls.

The Qur'?n does not appear to endorse the kind of doctrine of a radical mind-body dualism found in Greek philosophy, Christianity, or Hinduism; indeed, there is hardly a passage in the Qur'?n that says that man is composed of two separate, let alone disparate, substances, the body and the soul.

Opus Dei non est opus Dei.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

Toute Église est conquérante par nature, parce qu'elle se croit en possession de l'absolu. [...] Aucune doctrine ne peut échapper à cette fascination. Le respect des convictions adverses et la tolérance moderne sont le fruit, et chez un petit nombre, du développement de la conscience ou de la conviction que la croyance à l'absolu est une maladie de l'esprit, chez la plupart des hommes le résultat d'une grande lassitude.

The strange phenomenon of our times -- one which will probably astound our descendants -- is the doctrine based on this triple hypothesis: the total inertness of mankind, the omnipotence of the law, and the infallibility of the legislator. These three ideas form the sacred symbol of those who proclaim themselves totally democratic.

Your doctrine is only the half of my program; you have stopped at liberty, I go on to fraternity." I answered him: "The second part of your program will destroy the first." And in fact it is impossible for me to separate the word fraternity from the word voluntary.

Mr. de Lamartine once wrote to me thusly: "Your doctrine is only the half of my program. You have stopped at liberty; I go on to fraternity." I answered him: "The second half of your program will destroy the first.

One of the strangest phenomena of our time, and one that will probably be a matter of astonishment to our decedents, is that doctrine which is founded upon this triple hypothesis: the radical passiveness of mankind, -the omnipotence of the law, -the infallibility of the legislature: this is the sacred symbol of the party that proclaims itself exclusively democratic.

One of the strangest phenomena of our time, and one that will probably be a matter of astonishment to our descendants, is the doctrine which is founded upon this triple hypothesis: the radical passiveness of mankind—the omnipotence of the law—the infallibility of the legislator: this is the sacred symbol of the party that proclaims itself exclusively democratic.

The sin against nature [is] - compulsory celibacy