Doctrine Quotes - Page 26

• 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

  Men, Religion, May

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• The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.

  Galileo Galilei

  Moving, Errors, Religion

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• 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

  Philosophy, Religion, Reason

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.76, Penguin

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• There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religion, Damnation, Stories

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• But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Church, Use, Half

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• In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statements of political doctrine agree, while they differ in almost every possible application of their common principles.

  Harriet Martineau

  Party, Two, Political

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• 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

  Body, Scripture, Christianity

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• Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing; if you mistake them, they never grumble; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you.

  Richard de Bury

  Mistake, Book, Ignorance

  Richard de Bury (2013). “Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group
  without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Groups, Halos

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.

  John Stott

  Humility, Suffering, Church

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• The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the essentials of the history of slavery and its relation to Christian doctrine. Indeed, sad to say, his grasp is a great deal stronger than that of most professors of American history, whose distortions and trivializations disgrace our college classrooms. And the Reverend Mr. Wilson is a fighter, especially effective in defense of Christianity against those who try to turn Jesus' way of salvation into pseudo-moralistic drivel.

  Eugene Genovese

  Christian, Strong, Jesus

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• Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature.

  Narayanananda Swami.

  Names, Details, Realization

  "A Practical Guide to Samadhi". Book by Swami Narayanananda, p. 143, 1957.

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

  Howard Fast

  Religion, Scripture, Dogma

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

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• so long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?

  Anne Roe

  Believe, Men, Long

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• Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!

  Lydia M. Child

  Effort, Puddles, Earth

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• The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  War, Blood, Names

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• We can no longer speak of a bourne from which no traveler e'er returns. The middle wall of partition has been broken down and the boundary become but an invisible line by the resurrection of Christ. That He who died has been raised again and ever lives in the form of a complete humanity is the fundamental fact in the revelation of the Christian doctrine of immortality.

  B. B. Warfield

  Christian, Easter, Wall

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• What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

  Alan Keightley

  Giving Up, Believe, Important

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

  James G. Frazer

  Soul, Savages, Tribes

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• There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Virtue, Intellect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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• Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Girl, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• When I consider all the circumstances detailed above respecting the Pans, I cannot help believing that, under the mythos, a doctrine or history of a sect is concealed. Cunti, the wife of Pandu (du or God, Pan), wife of the generative power, mother of the Pandavas or devas, daughter of Sura or Syra the Sun Pandæa only daughter of Cristna or the Sun Pandion, who had by Medea a son called Medus, the king of the Medes, who had a cousin, the famous Perseus surely all this is very mythological an historical parable!

  Godfrey Higgins

  Daughter, Mother, Cousin

  Godfrey Higgins (1836). “Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis : Or, An Inquiry Into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions”, p.439

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• We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the sources of the Indus to Cape Comorin, (for we find a Regio Pandionis near this point,) to his daughter Pandæa; but, from finding the icon of Buddha so constantly shaded with the nine Cobras, &c., I am induced to think that this Pandeism was a doctrine, which had been received both by Buddhists and Brahmins.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Daughter, Buddhist, Son

  Godfrey Higgins (2014). “Anacalypsis”, p.244, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of the members' own bosoms any more than necessary) -- such as Pluralism, Plural or Celestial Wedlock, the Principle, the Doctrine, the New Covenant and the Gospel Dispensation of the Meridian of Consummate Time -- the latter was thought to be the least like waving a red flag in front of a bull. But as it was hard to remember and did not make instant or any other kind of sense, it was not much used.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Names, Red Flags, Wife

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• the word 'justification' has itself had a chequered career over the course of many centuries of debate. As the major historian of the doctrine has noted, the word has long since ceased to mean, in ecclesial debates, what it meant for Paul himself - which is confusing, since the debates have gone on referring to Paul as though he was in fact talking about what they want to talk about. It is as though the greengrocer treated you to a long discussion of how onions are grown, and how best to cook with them, when what you had asked was how much he would charge for three of them.

  N. T. Wright

  Mean, Talking, Careers

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