Doctrine Quotes

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  My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

  Anna Sewell

  Perseverance, Animal, Compassion

  Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.195

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• A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Jesus, Prayer

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• 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

  Holiness, Christianity, Holiness Of God

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

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• This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

  Martin Chemnitz

  Writing, Church, Scripture

  Martin Chemnitz (1971). “Examination of the Council of Trent”

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• The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

  Elihu Root

  Spring, Fall, Creating

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  Doubt, Principles, Esoteric

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• Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Rocks, Tempest, Thrown

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• 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

  Believe, Promise, May

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• The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Ideas, Adequate

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• Example moves the world more than doctrine.

  Henry Miller

  Moving, Example, World

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.183, New Directions Publishing

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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

  Steven Pinker

  Zero, Simple, Mind

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 8, 2002.

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• 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.

  Leland Stanford

  Memorable, Men, Rights

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

  Tertullian

  Discipline, Judging, Quality

  "The Prescriptions Against the Heretics" by Tertullian, as translated by Stanley Lawrence Greenslade in "Early Latin Theology: Selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome" (p. 63), 1956.

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• A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

  Simone Weil

  Fake People, Purpose, Deceived

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• According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  God, Moving, Wind

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• 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

  Money, Littles, Rich

  The Guardian, November 20, 1991.

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• I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Religious, Motherhood

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black

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• Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Wisdom, Truth

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Strength, Dedication

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899

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• In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Equality, America

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.154, Routledge

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• The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

  Ellen G. White

  Faith

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• Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Reality, Mirrors

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.28, Clube de Autores

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• A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  War, Idaho, Class

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• 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

  Men, Swag, Individual Choice

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays”, Ralph Myles Pub

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