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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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• If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, People, Giving

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.67, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

  Bede Griffiths

  Spiritual, Reality, Church

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• If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.

  John Calvin

  Teaching, Men, Scripture

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• In modern day evangelism, this precious doctrine [of regeneration] has been reduced to nothing more than a human decision to raise one's hand, walk an aisle, or pray a 'sinner's prayer.' As a result, the majority of Americans believe that they've been 'born again' even though their thoughts, words, and deeds are a continual contradiction to the nature and will of God.

  Paul Washer

  Prayer, Believe, Hands

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• The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Growth, Important

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• The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.

  John Knox

  Add, World, Scripture

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• Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

  William Ames

  Teaching, Theology

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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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• Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

  John Calvin

  Tongue, Affair

  John Calvin (2012). “On the Christian Life (Annotated Edition)”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.

  Martin Luther

  People, Devil, Doe

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.

  Charles Hodge

  Believe, Soul, Destroying

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.277

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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

  Forgiveness, Mean, Needs

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• They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

  Hutton Gibson

  World Government, World Religions, Catholic

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• Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Patriotic, Men, America

  Speech at Columbia University's bicentennial on May 31, 1954. "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 524, 1961.

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• The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

  Steven Pinker

  Dream, Pursuit Of Happiness, Desire

  "Steven Pinker: the optimistic voice of science" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.

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• The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Jesus, Revolutionary, Propaganda

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

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• Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Optimistic, White, Optimism

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

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• Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Mind, Bears

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

  John Milton

  Strength, Truth, Wind

  Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28

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• But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

  John Nelson Darby

  Real, Character, Giving

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• As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear
  Into the Avon, Avon to the tide
  Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,
  Into main ocean they, this deed accursed
  An emblem yields to friends and enemies
  How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified
  By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

  William Wordsworth

  Friendship, Teacher, Truth

  "Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)". Part II, No. 17. "The Ecclesiastical sonnets of William Wordsworth", edited by Abbie Findlay Potts, archive.org. 1922.

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• A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Political, World, Opponents

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2003). “A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century”, p.162, Routledge

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• As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

  Catharine Beecher

  Writing, Talking, People

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.206

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• How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Mind, Saint

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