Quotes About Doctrine

Face the facts. Then act on them. It's the only mantra I know, the only doctrine I have to offer you, and it's harder than you'd think, because I swear humans seem hardwired to do anything but. Face the facts. Don't pray, don't wish, don't buy into centuries-old dogma and dead rhetoric. Don't give in to your conditioning or your visions or your fucked-up sense of . . . whatever. Face the facts. Then act.

True believers aren't real receptive to the idea that what they're telling you is just mythology.

The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.

The dispassion of paedeia also informed the doctrine of the Trinity, which these three men, often known as the Cappadocian Fathers

After his death, his followers decided that Jesus had been divine. This did not happen immediately; as we shall see, the doctrine that Jesus had been God in human form was not finalized until the fourth century.

included: no religious doctrine or practice can be authentic if it does not lead to practical compassion.

Law is just religion for atheists, dear. It's equally shot full of contradictory nonsense.

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation

Nous ne nous présentons pas au monde en doctrinaires avec un nouveau principe en lui disant: voici la vérité, c'est ici qu'il faut tomber à genoux. Des principes du monde nous tirons pour le monde des principes nouveaux.

The materialist doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and upbringing forgets that circumstances are changed by men and that it is essential to educate the educator himself. This doctrine must, therefore, divide society into two parts, one of which is superior to society. The coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-changing can be conceived and rationally understood only as revolutionary practice. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

But Lenin founded a very unorthodox Marxist party, if indeed it should be called Marxist at all. Lenin learned to be an atheist, a revolutionary, and a socialist from other native Russian revolutionaries, no from Marx. He picked up the doctrine of dialectical materialism from the Russian revolutionary N.G. Chernyshevskii, not from Marx. An observation by Francis B. Randall

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.

A man lives by believing something.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.