Doctrine Quotes

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.

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

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.

They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

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

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

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

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.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

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.

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.

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

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.