#doctrine

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#doctrines #either #else #everybody #like

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

#defend #doctrine #every #gross #make

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

The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer. ↗

— René Girard

#pragmatism #religion #technology #religion

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#agreement #beneath #differences #discipline #doctrine

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine. ↗

— E. Howard Hunt

#cold #cold war #doctrine #europe #expanded

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#baseless #been #doctrine #equal #fiction

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. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ask #doctrine #false #himself #honest

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #before #cart #comprehension #doctrines

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

#creed #doctrine #friend #had #himself