Quotes About Doctrine

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

We have always heard it preached, "Love one another". What for? That doctrine was preached, but the explanation is here. Why should I love every one? Because they and I are one. Why should I love my brother? Because he and I are one. There is this oneness; this solidarity of the whole universe. From the lowest worm that crawls under our feet to the highest beings that ever lived – all have various bodies, but are the one Soul.

The Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realising — not in believing, but in being and becoming.

There can be no more laying of foundations, any more than there can be other incarnations or crucifixions of Christ or rebaptism.

If the Atonement is the foundation of our faith (and it is), then no one should be content with a casual acquaintance of this doctrine. Instead, the Atonement should be paramount in our intellectual and spiritual pursuits.

The secular" is conceptually prior to the political doctrine of "secularism", that over time a variety of concepts, practices and sensibilities have come together to form "the secular".

Belief! That was always a big problem. Marxism as a surrogate religion with its prophets and popes. Look where it has got us. You believe? You have no right to believe. You must not believe…

What is it Aristotle said? 'Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.' Yes. Populism is becoming popular in America—an old doctrine, though its adherents invariably think it is a new one, age after age.

Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.

Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation.

There is no such thing in the Lord's eyes as something called same-gender marriage.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

Man's best friend is his dogma.