Doctrine Quotes - Page 14

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

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.

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

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

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.

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.

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

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.

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

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

The level of vitriol against Jews and Christianity within contemporary Islam, unfortunately, is something that we are not totally cognizant of, or that we don't want to accept. We don't want to accept it because to do so would be to acknowledge that one of the world's great religions -- which has more than 1.4 billion adherents -- somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine.

Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.

The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of official authority may get the state may keep, and that if it cannot get hold of a nonresident stockholder it may hold the company as hostage for him, is strange constitutional doctrine to me.

The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for the Five Points of Calvinism). These are not thinkers on the margins or troublemakers. They are leaders at the center of Reformed thinking like Bishop John Davenant.

Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation

As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it refers to a religion accepted by the large majority, which assures them that God is not so much a Lord who demands obedience as a handyman who is available whenever we need help.

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

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