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• Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.

  Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

  Fear, Twilight, Doubt

  Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1862). “The Recreations of a Country Parson”, p.325

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• It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Atheism, Looks, Machines

  Henrik Ibsen (1904). “Ghosts: An Enemy of the People : The Wild Duck”

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• All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Deny, Seems, Sects

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• Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Pride, Idols

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.58

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• I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and Appolyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. Let us make it simpler and plainer for people to get into the Kingdom of God.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Moving, Simple, People

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• Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Use, Helping, Logic

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• Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

  John Polkinghorne

  Character, Age, Creation

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• A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

  Plato

  Men, Water Of Life, Truth Is

  Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

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• Discipline is an index to doctrine.

  Tertullian

  Discipline

  "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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• Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Treasure, Riches, Fields

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• Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Happy, Sound Doctrine

  "Critique of Practical Reason". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1788.

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• There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

  Francois Fenelon

  Life, Success, Religious

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• What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.

  J. C. Ryle

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• An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Religious, Perfect, Political

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• Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

  Charles Lamb

  Fighting, Bravery, Soldier

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• Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jesus, Religion, Age

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• Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

  John Stott

  Arise

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Ephesians”, p.122, SPCK

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• Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Skins, Agnosticism, Christian Doctrine

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.307

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• A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world.

  Tony Benn

  Differences, World, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Genius, Splendid

  Benjamin Disraeli (1904). “Endymion”

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• The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

  Walter Martin

  Unity, Three, Eternity

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• Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

  James D. Watson

  Religious, Science, Theory Of Evolution

  James D. Watson (1970). “Molecular Biology of the Gene”

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• If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.

  Jim Cymbala

  Bible, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Pastor Jim Cymbala from Oct 03, 2015

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• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Simple, Lust, Mind

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• What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Years, Two

  Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Samuel Butler ...”, p.278

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