Doctrine Quotes - Page 5

• Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Simple, Agreement, Differences

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• Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Children, Trying, Generations

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2013). “A Theology for the Social Gospel”, p.8, Ravenio Books

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• The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Expression, Constant, Liberalism

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.274, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

  Robertson Davies

  Stupid, History, Weapons

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• Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

  Benjamin F. Wade

  Men, Rights, Ideas

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• Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

  Joseph Priestley

  Ideas, Association, Cases

  Joseph Priestley (1777). “The Doctrine of Philofophical Neceffity Illustrated: Being an Appendix to the Difquifitions Relating to Matter and Spirit. To which is Added an Anfwer to the Letters on Materialism, and on Hartley's Theory of the Mind [by Joseph Perington].”, p.36

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• A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

  Orson Pratt

  Men, Servant Of God, Lasts

  Orson Pratt (1851). “O. Pratt: A Series of Pamphlets”, p.28

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• Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Christian, War

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• I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Giving, Temptation

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• The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Teaching, Men, Secret

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.1206, Penguin

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• O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Feet, Numbers

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• Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

  Adoniram Judson Gordon

  Skeletons, Grace, Offensive

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 194), 1895.

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• The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

  Paul Stewart

  Holiness, Hell, Christ

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• The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

  Emil Brunner

  Christian, Prayer, Book

  Emil Brunner (1931). “The Word and the World”

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• False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Men, Evil

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2005). “AIDS to Reflection and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

  Thomas Brooks

  Church, Should, Preacher

  Thomas Brooks (1867). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.24

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• A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

  Simone Weil

  Fake People, Purpose, Deceived

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• Example moves the world more than doctrine.

  Henry Miller

  Moving, Example, World

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.183, New Directions Publishing

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• I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Strength, Dedication

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899

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• The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

  Steven Pinker

  Zero, Simple, Mind

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 8, 2002.

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• You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

  Tertullian

  Discipline, Judging, Quality

  "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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• The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

  Anna Leonowens

  May, Belief, Worst

  Anna Leonowens (2009). “The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok”, p.184, Applewood Books

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• God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

  Galileo Galilei

  Known

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• According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  God, Moving, Wind

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• The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Ideas, Adequate

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