Quotes of Doctrine - somelinesforyou

“ So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ”

- Jacques Barzun

“ My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ His religion at best is an anxious wish, - like that of Rebelais, a great Perhaps. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.". ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ I do benefits for all religions — I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. ”

- Bob Hope

“ It is a curious thing … that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ”

- Evelyn Waugh

“ Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ 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

“ The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. ”

- H.G. Wells

“ There is no entrenchment as far as ideology is concerned. ”

- Rod Paige

“ So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate. ”

- Bible

“ It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously. ”

- Michael C. Cahill

“ Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place — social service — the ants creed, the bees creed. ”

- John Galsworthy

“ Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own. ”

- Robert Welch

“ 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

“ Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord. ”

- Bible

“ We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. ”

- Tony Benn

“ 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

“ An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. ”

- Bible

“ Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do. ”

- JOHN C. MAXWELL

“ Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. ”

- Phil Collins

“ One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine. ”

- Junius
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