#doctrine

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#any #blind #blind obedience #christians #civil

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves. ↗

— William Gurnall

#among #compare #doctrines #false #like

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed. ↗

— O. Henry

#am #choice #discovering #doctrines #feed

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. ↗

— Athanasius

#alone #contain #doctrine #fountains #godliness

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

— Tony Benn

#difference #doctrine #faith #kill #something

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. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#contrary #departure #doctrine #journey #metaphysical

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#age #brings #distrust #doctrine #familiar

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#doctrine #experiment #generation #mortal #never

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#changed #doctrines #more #names #readily

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#age #cannot #character #construct #cosmic