Doctrine Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• Doctrine does matter. But one must ever be reminded that to be right on doctrine does not mean one is right with the Lord.

  John Napier

  Mean, Doe, Matter

  112 Copy quote

• New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

  Madame de Stael

  World, Fancy, Losing

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

  Ellen G. White

  Faith

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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 ...”

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime.

  Harry Kalven

  Stars, Government, Criticism

  Harry Kalven (1989). “A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America”, HarperCollins

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.

  Charlie Pierce

  Struggle, Effort, Weakness

  "I Dream of Common Wealth" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. March 29, 2012.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom.

  Timothy Keller

  Progress, Kingdoms, Way

  4 Copy quote

• Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of a lifetime and comes 'line upon line, precept upon precept.

  Cheryl A. Esplin

  Lines, Lifetime, Process

  6 Copy quote

• The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military. . . . The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.

  Majid Khadduri

  Military, War, Fighting

  4 Copy quote

• If a man has only correct doctrine to offer me, I am sure to slip out at the first intermission to seek the company of someone who has seen for himself how lovely is the face of Him who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Such a man can help me, and no one else can.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Motivation, Inspiration, Men

  7 Copy quote

• I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

  Andrew Greeley

  Strong, Thinking, Facts

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Heaven, Devil

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.18

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Devil, Overcoming

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.19

  4 Copy quote

  Show source