100+ Doctrine Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.149, Transaction Publishers

topic: Humility, Enemy, Doctrine

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

- Anna Leonowens

source: Anna Leonowens (2009). “The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok”, p.184, Applewood Books

topic: Doctrine, May, Belief

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

- Antonio Tabucchi

topic: Ideas, Perfection, Doctrine, Spawn, Totalitarian Regimes

In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.

- Archibald Alexander

topic: Believe, Doctrine, Mysterious

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Church, Doctrine, Separation

There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

- Augustine Birrell

source: Augustine Birrell (1922). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”

topic: Men, Doctrine, Aliens

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

- Austin Osman Spare

topic: Doctrine, Conformity

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.465, Penguin

topic: Men, Liberty, Doctrine, Collective Good

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Philosophy, Religion, Doctrine

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

source: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

topic: Doctrine, Tradition, Absence

Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: Sex, Reality, Doctrine

I do not set myself up as an advocate of the woman's right doctrine, but would rather appear in the character of a quiet lady expressing her sentiments, not so much to the public as to her immediate friends.

- Belle Boyd

source: Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.461

topic: Character, Doctrine, Quiet

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

- Benito Mussolini

topic: Political, Spheres, Doctrine

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Men, Doctrine, Genius

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: People, Doctrine, Contradiction

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

- Benjamin Tucker

topic: Men, Choices, Doctrine, Individual Choice

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.

- Bernard Crick

source: Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.17, Bernard Crick

topic: Political, Doctrine, Politics

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

- Bernard Crick

topic: Derivatives, Doctrine, Social

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Doctrine, World, Adequate

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

- Bodhidharma

source: Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.31, Macmillan

topic: Doctrine, Way, Tao

True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day, month after month.

- Bonnie L. Oscarson

topic: Spiritual, Doctrine, Months

True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior. Preoccupation with unworthy behavior can lead to unworthy behavior. That is why we stress so forcefully the study of the doctrines of the gospel.

- Boyd K. Packer

source: Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

topic: Attitude, Stress, Doctrine

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

- Boyd K. Packer

topic: Teaching, Doctrine, Study

I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.

- Brigham Young

topic: Jesus, Saint, Doctrine, Latter Days

The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.

- Brigham Young

topic: Compassion, Doctrine, Charity, Knowledge Wisdom, Impart

This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth

- Brigham Young

topic: Wife, Waiting, Doctrine

It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.

- Bruce R. McConkie

topic: Echoes, Church, Doctrine

Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls.

- Bruce R. McConkie

topic: Soul, Damnation, Doctrine

The Word of truth teaches in the clearest and most positive terms that all of the dead will be raised. No doctrine of the faith rests upon a more literal and emphatic body of Scripture authority than this, nor is any more vital to Christianity.

- C. I. Scofield

topic: Doctrine, Body, Scripture

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

- Caleb Cushing

topic: Men, Liberty, Doctrine, Forefathers

In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

- Carl Bernstein

topic: Views, Issues, Doctrine, Cupboards, John Paul Ii

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Philosophy, Religion, Doctrine

Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Religious, Doctrine, Inquiry, Contention, Redesign

Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Class, Doctrine, Finals

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

- Charles Hartshorne

source: "Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. 348), 1941.

topic: Doctrine, Arbitrary, Deism

No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.

- Charles Hodge

source: Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.277

topic: Believe, Soul, Doctrine

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.

- Charles Hodge

topic: Giving, Doctrine, Galatians, Anathema

True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.

- Charles Hodge

topic: Church, Sound, Doctrine, Sound Doctrine, Zealot

Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science.

- Charles Lyell

topic: Lying, Independent, Doctrine, Transmutation

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Life, Church, Doctrine

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Grace, Doctrine, Discourse, Ostentatious

I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Believe, Special, Doctrine, Special Love

Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Believe, Doctrine, Good Work

It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Jesus, Strong, Doctrine, Calvinism

Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of a lifetime and comes 'line upon line, precept upon precept.

- Cheryl A. Esplin

topic: Doctrine, Lines, Lifetime

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Religious, Criminals, Doctrine

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

- Crane Brinton

topic: History, Events, Doctrine, Events In History

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.

- D.T. Suzuki

topic: Acceptance, Intellectual, Doctrine

Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

- Dahlia Lithwick

topic: Doctrine, Establishment Clause, Firsts, Mere Mortals

A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

- David Brewster

source: David Brewster (1854). “More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian”, p.138

topic: Truth, Giving, Doctrine, Truth Revealed

Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.

- David Horowitz

topic: Art, Cuba, Doctrine, Crackpots

Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

- Diana Butler Bass

source: "Moving Beyond Tribal Religion" by Ryan Thomas Neace, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

topic: Healing, People, Doctrine, Scalpels

In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

- Earl Warren

topic: Education, Doctrine, Fields, Public Education, Separate But Equal

Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. Our children are being led to believe that they are doomed to failure in a world which has room only for those at the top.

- Eda LeShan

source: Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

topic: Children, Believe, Doctrine

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

- Edmund Barton

topic: Men, Doctrine, Englishmen, Equality Of Man

Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

- Edmund Spenser

topic: Example, Doctrine, Gracious

Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Atheism, Doctrine, Asceticism, Original Sin

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

- Ellen G. White

topic: People, Reform, Doctrine

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Brother, Endurance, Doctrine, Insensitivity, Resigned

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.

- Eric Clapton

source: Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

topic: Doctrine, Spirituality, Trustworthy, Old Soul

The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord has placed His stamp of approval on both the keystone and the capstone.

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Book, Doctrine, Covenant

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: Sports, Wind, Doctrine

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

- Florence Nightingale

topic: Mind, Doctrine, Disease, Medical Profession

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

- Francis Parker Yockey

source: Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.274, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

topic: Expression, Doctrine, Constant

At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.

- Frank Chodorov

topic: Firsts, Doctrine, Income, Housemaids

It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands not only are facts gathered that [are] often new in kind, but it is in these regions that wholly new concepts arise. It is my own faith that just as the older biology from its faithful studies of external forms provided a new concept in the doctrine of evolution, so the new biology is yet fated to furnish entirely new fundamental concepts of science, at which physics and chemistry when concerned with the non-living alone could never arrive.

- Frederick Gowland Hopkins

topic: Faithful, Growth, Doctrine, Living Alone, Old Saying

It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.

- Frederick William Robertson

topic: Jesus, Understanding, Doctrine, Lowliness, Rest And Peace

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Jesus, Age, Doctrine

They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit...

- Galileo Galilei

topic: Men, Religion, Doctrine

[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.

- Galileo Galilei

topic: Doctrine, Copernicus, Scripture

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

- Galileo Galilei

topic: Doctrine

Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.

- Galileo Galilei

topic: Philosophy, Achievement, Doctrine, Conception, Refutation

Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than every word, for it arises out of the truth of who you are. This truth is all you have ever longed for, all you have ever needed.

- Gangaji

topic: Doctrine, Belief, Truth Is, Belief Systems

Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take as your guide.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Teacher, Believe, Doctrine, Wise Buddhist, Good Buddhist

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

- George C. Homans

topic: Men, Liberty, Doctrine

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

- George C. Marshall

source: The Marshall Plan, delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University

topic: Country, Political, Doctrine, Hunger Poverty, Ending Poverty

A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.

- George F. Kennan

topic: Mistake, Principles, Doctrine, Containment, Prevailing

Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.

- George Henry Lewes

source: George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings”, p.9, London : Smith, Elder and Company

topic: Historical, Doctrine, Spirit, Unsympathetic, Historical Significance

If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.

- George Horace Lorimer

topic: Mean, Men, Doctrine, Methodists, Episcopalians

By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.

- George Orwell

topic: Hatred, Leader, Doctrine

Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.

- George Orwell

topic: Doctrine, Persons, Instance

So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.

- George Washington

topic: Principles, Doctrine, Masonic, Freemasonry, Masons

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.

- George Whitefield

source: George Whitefield (1958). “Select Sermons of George Whitefield”, Banner of Truth

topic: Doctrine, Holiness, Christianity, Holiness Of God

[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated." Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.

- Georges Bataille

topic: Mean, Doctrine, Return, Moments Of Life

Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes . . . The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible. If the theory of relativity had also been necessary for salvation, it would have been revealed to Saint Paul or to Moses.

- Georges Lemaitre

topic: Doe, Saint, Doctrine, Theories Of Relativity, Saint Paul

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

- Georgia Harkness

topic: Atheism, Doctrine, Sin

Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of sulphur.

- Georgius Agricola

topic: Doctrine, Flux, Bloody, Chemist

Worship the Trinity, which I call the only true devotion and saving doctrine.

- Gregory of Nazianzus

topic: Doctrine, Saving, Worship, Trinity

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.76, Knopf

topic: Men, Doctrine, Spirituality, Demagoguery

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

- Han Fei

topic: People, Doctrine, Submissive

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

- Harlan F. Stone

source: Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, (100), 1943.

topic: Equality, People, Doctrine

Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.

- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

source: Dedication in "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco, 1988.

topic: Children, Book, Doctrine

The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Simple, Simplicity, Doctrine, Good Words

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

- Henry Miller

topic: Moving, Example, Doctrine

Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of the present and the visible, and so much of the future and the unseen.

- Henry Parry Liddon

topic: Christian, Unseen, Doctrine

Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues.

- Henry Suso

topic: Men, Giving, Doctrine

This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.

- Herbert J. Muller

source: Herbert J. Muller (1952). “the Uses of the Past”

topic: Prayer, Doctrine, Kind

O, let us understand that the power of Christianity lies not in a hazy indefiniteness, not in shadowy forms, not so much even in definite truths and doctrines, but in the truth and the doctrine. There is but one Christ crucified. All the gathered might of the infinite God is in that word.

- Herrick Johnson

source: Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

topic: Lying, Doctrine, Might, Hazy

In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.

- Hilaire Belloc

topic: Men, Doctrine, Ease, Individual Freedom, Subversion

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

- Horace Bushnell

topic: Character, Perfect, Doctrine

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

- Horace Greeley

topic: Atheism, Vedas, Doctrine

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

- Howard Fast

source: Howard Fast (2011). “The Art of Zen Meditation”, p.8, Open Road Media

topic: Religion, Doctrine, Scripture

Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.

- Huangbo Xiyun

topic: Fall, Independence, Doctrine

O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!

- Hugh Latimer

source: Hugh Latimer (1978). “Selected Sermons of Hugh Latimer”, p.42, Associated University Presse

topic: Doctrine, Would Be, Corn, Diligent, Cockles

My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of the great doctrines of Divine grace.

- Ichabod Spencer

source: Ichabod Smith Spencer (1851). “A Pastor's Sketches”, p.177

topic: Grace, Doctrine, Opinion, Divine Grace

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.

- Indira Gandhi

topic: Country, Ideas, Doctrine, Multiplication, Civilised

We should no more tolerate false doctrine that we would tolerate sin.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Doctrine, Sin, Should

Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the image of Christ' must be seen and observed by others in our private life, and habits, and character, and doings.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Character, Doe, Doctrine, Holy Life

What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Doctrine

Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.

- J. D. Greear

topic: Life And Death, Essentials, Doctrine, Damage Is Done

Practically every false doctrine comes from getting things out of order. God's divine order is salvation, then change; not change and then salvation! If one has to be changed to be saved, that's salvation by works. It is also salvation by the flesh. The truth is, one is cleansed from the sins of the flesh just as he is saved; by yielding to the Holy Spirit and letting Him do His work.

- Jack Hyles

topic: Order, Doctrine, Flesh, Divine Order, Sins Of The Flesh

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Men, Events, Doctrine

Our Heavenly Father, who loves us completely and perfectly, permits us to have experiences that will allow us to develop the traits and attributes we need to become more and more Christlike. . . . As we understand this doctrine, we gain greater assurance of our Father's love. We will each face times of difficulty, and the question is not when we will face them but how we will face them.

- James B. Martino

topic: Father, Doctrine, Needs, Heavenly Father

We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in terms of the 'Two Fluids' theory. Their results, however, have been deduced entirely from data which can be proved by experiment, and which must therefore be true, whether we adopt the theory of two fluids or not. The experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory.

- James Clerk Maxwell

topic: Data, Two, Doctrine

One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the same thing as the current of conduction, but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must [also] be taken into account...

- James Clerk Maxwell

topic: Taken, Science, Doctrine, Electric Current

This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages

- James G. Frazer

topic: Soul, Doctrine, Savages

Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.

- James P. Cannon

source: James P. Cannon (2002). “History of American Trotskyism, The, 1928-38: Report of a Participant”

topic: Doctrine, Restoration, Movement, Russian Revolution

Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

- Jane Hirshfield

topic: Eye, Doctrine, Tools, Open Eyes

The effect of Judaism's vigorous promotion of monotheism, and the dignity that this doctrine conferred on all humankind, as created in God's image, coupled with the discipline, warnth and security offered by the Jewish way of life, cannot be overestimated as a powerful catalyst for the undermining and eventual destruction of Graeco-Roman paganism.

- Jeff Cohen

topic: Powerful, Discipline, Doctrine

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.114, Hachette UK

topic: Fire, Doctrine, Elements

The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire, free trade, the gold standard, and the universally advantageous effects of the pursuit of profit by competitive private enterprise.

- Joan Robinson

topic: Gold, Doctrine, Lasts, Gold Standard

Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the intricate web of co-arising that links one being with all other beings, and to apprehend the reciprocities between thought and action, self and universe.

- Joanna Macy

topic: Self, Doctrine, Links

The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.

- John Andreas Widtsoe

topic: Light, Church, Doctrine

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

- John Calvin

topic: Doctrine, Tongue, Affair

We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest conviction. But we are called on to trust--to trust ourselves to God, being sure that He will lead us right--to keep close to Him--and to trust the promises which He whispers through our conscience; this we can do, and we ought to do.

- John Campbell Shairp

topic: Believe, Promise, Doctrine

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

- John Flavel

source: John Flavel (2014). “Fountain of Life: 1671”

topic: Jesus, Doctrine, Christ

Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

- John Gresham Machen

source: John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.27, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

topic: Two, Doctrine, Elements

The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most general to the most special. Roughly, we say that there is a gradual 'adding on' of the more and more special, a continual adding on of new organisations. But this 'adding on' is at the same time a 'keeping down'. The higher nervous arrangements evolved out of the lower keep down those lower, just as a government evolved out of a nation controls as well as directs that nation.

- John Hughlings Jackson

source: John Hughlings Jackson (1931). “Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson: Evaluation and dissolution of the nervous system. Speech. Various papers, addresses and lectures”

topic: Government, Special, Doctrine

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

topic: Money, Doctrine, Littles, Twentieth Century, Little Money

The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.

- John Knox

topic: Doctrine, Add, World

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

- John Lancaster Spalding

topic: Vanity, Despair, Doctrine

Doctrine does matter. But one must ever be reminded that to be right on doctrine does not mean one is right with the Lord.

- John Napier