Doctrine Quotes

• There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

  

  George Eliot
  • Habit
  • Morality
  • Direct

• The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Evil
  • Democracy
  • Doctrine

• I think that these are the kinds of things that we can debate vigorously. We don't have to ultimately divide over them and I think when we debate, we should do so in a collegial fashion, with a great deal of gentleness and humbleness, recognizing that we can learn from one another. Again, even with people who have moved over from the Kingdom of Christ to the kingdom of the cults, we need to treat them with love and with gentleness and with a heart to restore them to proper life and doctrine.

  

  Hank Hanegraaff
  • Fashion
  • Learn
  • Debate

• The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Security
  • Causes
  • Amendments

• There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Fire
  • NATO
  • Nuclear Weapon

• 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
  • Truth
  • Contradictory
  • Inference

• Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness.

  

  Ephrem the Syrian
  • Desires
  • Brightness
  • Shines

• Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

  

  Joseph Priestley
  • Ideas
  • Will
  • Doctrine

• 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
  • Acceptance
  • Intellectual
  • Doctrine

• Being vegan is not about rules or doctrine. It’s not about restriction or self-denial.

  

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
  • Rules
  • Vegan
  • Not

• It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Design
  • Wit
  • Doctrine

• 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.

  

  David Bennun
  • Joy
  • Serious
  • Elevation

• Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological grounds to become a brake on the further dissemination of ideas.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Force
  • Doctrine
  • Propaganda

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

  

  Anna Leonowens
  • Understood
  • Doctrine
  • Interpreted

• Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • First
  • Doctrine
  • Knave

• The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.

  

  John Calvin
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Memory

• Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Realizing
  • Views
  • Doctrine

• I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Persons
  • Groups
  • Doctrine

• 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.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Leader
  • Doctrine

• When the doctrine of repentance is fully understood then it is seen that repentance is all that ever needs to be taught for repentance means not only to stop doing those things which are wrong but to start doing those things which are right.

  

  Daniel H. Ludlow
  • Mean
  • Needs
  • Forgiveness

• Mission [is] understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It [is] thus put in the context of the Trinity, not of ecclesiology or soteriology. The classical doctrine of the missio dei as God the Father sending the Son, and God the Father and the Son sending the Spirit [is] expanded to include yet another “movement”: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit sending the church into the world. Father Son Church World Spirit Holy Spirit Holy Father Son Doctrine Missions Movement Trinity Understood Missional Church

  

  David Bosch
  • World
  • Father
  • Spirit

• To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

  

  Josephus Daniels
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Challenge

• But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Goal
  • Teachers
  • Secrets

• Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Freedom
  • Willing
  • Doctrine

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