Doctrine Quotes - Page 24

• The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Research, Fields

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• Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Political, Fields, Operations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Roots, Hatred, Selfless

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.78, Penguin Books India

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• Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Humanity, And Love

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• Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other

  Albert Bandura

  Mind, Enlightenment, Events

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• You can describe Christianity and you can also describe liberalism. Christianity has certain beliefs, tenets, doctrines. Not all Christians are always living up to them. Similarly, not all liberals are living up to the tenets of liberalism.

  Ann Coulter

  Christian, Belief, Certain

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. June 6, 2006.

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• Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.

  Thomas Frank

  War, Contentment, World

  Interview with Margaret Wappler, www.believermag.com. August, 2004.

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• Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come to theology classes somewhat reluctantly, assuming that doctrine is neither practical nor relevant to their future ministry.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Practice, Class, Church

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to prove in court that a person or group is experiencing racism because the standards are too narrow and too focused on individual intentions.

  Dean Spade

  Racism, Groups, Racist

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I went to law school which is a 3-year program in the US that is focused primarily on memorizing certain doctrines and taking exams that test whether you can apply those doctrines to help prepare for the bar exam. If you are lucky, you get a few classes where you are encouraged to think more critically and read critical texts rather than just casebooks, and perhaps write a paper that is not a legal memo or brief.

  Dean Spade

  Writing, School, Thinking

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when it exonerates itself from the impositions of the laws it obligates people outside the legislature to obey.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Law, People, Political

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• The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

  James E. Faust

  Church, Principles, Absolutism

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• Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and information of an adept. In such a case the adept is obliged to supply the seeker with spiritual light and insight, according to his mental powers. Then the magician should spare neither time nor pains to communicate his spiritual treasures and lead the seeker to the light.

  Franz Bardon

  Spiritual, Pain, Light

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• ...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.

  William James

  Karma, Buddhist, Principles

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.213, Routledge

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• The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

  Matthew Carter

  Leadership, Christian, Jesus

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• Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

  Voltaire

  Destiny, Law, People

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• Every morning, read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof. It is a book full of light and wisdom, will make you wise to eternal life, and furnish you with directions and principles to guide and order your life safely and prudently.

  Matthew Hale

  Wise, Morning, Book

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• Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God... Let it be known, that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments.

  John Adams

  Religious, Men, Liberty

  "The Works of John Adams, Volume 3: Autobiography, Diary, Notes of a Debate in the Senate, Essays". Book edited by Charles Francis Adams, 1851.

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• Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.

  John Locke

  Character, Army, Science

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• True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.

  John Piper

  Strong, Biblical, Deep Love

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• The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.

  John Adams

  Jesus, Faith Religion, Atheism

  "Fictional character: John Adams". "Spirit", Book by William Edelen, 1989.

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• You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Rome, Mind

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• Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.

  Kenneth Clark

  Phrases, Firsts, Ethics

  John Ruskin, Kenneth Clark (1991). “Selected writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Christian, Spiritual, Teaching

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• I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end.

  William Jones

  Christian, Men, Vices

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