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For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which to support it.
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.
When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.
Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.
A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world.
Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.
The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.
Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity.
Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
My doctrine is as I've described, which is confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.
The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.
There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.
Doctrine does matter. But one must ever be reminded that to be right on doctrine does not mean one is right with the Lord.
As the word 'tolerance' grows in popularity, tolerance for pure, unadulterated Christian doctrine appears to be shrinking.
As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed.
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.
The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.
The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.
Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.
The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.
Our warfighting doctrine is that we don't want to be in a fair fight, and we want the fight to always be tilted in our favor.
Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us.
Traditional Judaism has always embraced the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the dead.
This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.
As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.
If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.
...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
By interacting with NATO vessels on E.U. anti-piracy duty, the Chinese are gaining valuable insights in to Western naval doctrine.
Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.
Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.
Only the continuous and steady application of the methods for suppressing a doctrine, etc., makes it possible for a plan to succeed.