120 Doctrine Quotes for You to Enjoy

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. Karen Armstrong

Life Key Goals Compassion Spirituality Those Easier Religions Religious Religious Life Rather Only Put True Like Doctrine Always Test True Test Been Place Central Conformity Enlightenment Stressed

Believe in the doctrine of perfect sanctification attainable in this life. Adoniram Judson

Life Believe Perfect Attainable Doctrine Sanctification

For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination. Anthony Marra

Daily Words Strip Detailing John Vocabulary More Unruly Stuffed Named Doctrine Tiger Boy Comic Comic Strip His Preached Than Hobbes Predestination After Packed Theologian Who Whose Set

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

Political Example Doubt System Religious No Doubt Admit About Perfect For Example Doctrine Aesthetic Imposed Intellectual Political System Going Room Doubts Fundamentalist

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church. Arthur Middleton

Director Church Thinking Worship Kind Administration Determine Rather Priest Mere Doctrine Reduce Than Managing Where Form Wants

I do not set myself up as an advocate of the woman's right doctrine, but would rather appear in the character of a quiet lady expressing her sentiments, not so much to the public as to her immediate friends. Belle Boyd

Ultimately, the court is heading to a doctrine of 'separation of campaign and state.' This doctrine, like separation of church and state or separation of military and civilian authority, is not explicit in the Constitution but flows naturally from its structure and commitment to freedom and democracy. Bradley A. Smith

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine. Caleb Cushing

Great Political Doctrine Upheld Being Republic Organized

In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues. Carl Bernstein

Faith Carefully John Staying John Paul Only Through Had Exchanging Written Joseph Advantage Days Doctrine Issues His Cupboard Paul Congregation Speaking Views Pope Publicly Cardinal

Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place. Charles Krauthammer

I grew up in an environment where it was permittable to use violence to solve a problem. But it was not permittable ever to call the police under any circumstances. That was the kind of doctrine of my household. My dad was a career-long criminal, and you weren't calling the police for any reason. Charlie Hunnam

You Problem Police Criminal Circumstances Kind Solve Environment Doctrine Household Call Calling Were Up Any Any Circumstances Where Grew Use Reason Dad Ever Violence

It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort. Charlie Pierce

Myth Power Own Sense Nothing Our Sign Weakness Struggling Individuals Feeds Doctrine Effort Common Hold Commonwealth Even Oligarchy

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair. David Novak

First Own Christian Punished Responsible Seem Rather Only Sin Doctrine Does Inevitably His Sins Person Human Mean Original Even Each Pair Original Sin Her Humans Copy

The applicability of the Establishment Clause to public funding of benefits to religious schools was settled in Everson v. Board of Ed. of Ewing, which inaugurated the modern era of establishment doctrine. David Souter

Benefits Settled Religious Clause Doctrine Schools Era Modern Modern Era Establishment Which Board Public Inaugurated Funding

The principles and doctrines of the priesthood are sublime and supernal. The more we study the doctrine and potential and apply the practical purpose of the priesthood, the more our souls will be expanded and our understanding enlarged, and we will see what the Lord has in store for us. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Will Priesthood Understanding Our See More Potential Purpose Study Doctrine Doctrines Practical Principles Souls Lord Sublime Store Us Apply

I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God People Church Pure Mistakes Run Would Would-Be Only Imperfect Perfect Through Perfect People He Suppose Doctrine Make Were His Children Us Works Beings

Under Pope Francis, we have seen a change at the Vatican that is reflective of the church I know and love. He approaches controversial doctrine or past wrongdoing with humility, understanding, and faith in the goodness of mankind. He has served as a voice for the voiceless and has been working to re-establish the church as a home for the homeless. Donna Brazile

Love Faith Home Change Church Seen Goodness Understanding Past Humility Approaches Francis Has-Been Voice Voiceless Vatican He Wrongdoing Know Doctrine Been Reflective Controversial Mankind Working Pope Homeless Served

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Earl Warren

Education Public Education Field Doctrine Equal Conclude Place Public Separate

If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything. Ed Kowalczyk

Live Doctrine Message Intensity Behind Just Anything Mean Necessarily

While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind. Edward McKendree Bounds

God Time Loyalty Prayer Word Pulpit Must Doctrine Same Same Time Hold Which While Mankind Loyal Illustrate

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