Doctrine Quotes
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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.
George Bernard Shaw
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Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw that Peter's error would lead to the damage of the whole Church unless it were corrected. Therefore he withstood Peter to his face. The Church, Peter, the apostles, angels from heaven, are not to be heard unless they teach the genuine Word of God.
Martin Luther
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What began as a declaration of religious independence from Rome transformed over the years into a virulent doctrine of Saxon Teutonic racial superiority over
Bryan Sykes
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Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the time being on their lies against doctrine or faith.
Martin Luther
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
Thomas Hobbes
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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
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Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
William Godwin
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I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
George Eliot
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Being vegan is not about rules or doctrine. It’s not about restriction or self-denial.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
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The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.
Anna Leonowens
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The life of doctrine is in application.
Joseph Hall
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The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body to undergo an experience in mortality.
Heber J. Grant
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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
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And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
Horace Greeley
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There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.
Camille Flammarion
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
John Calvin
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The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.
Emil Brunner