What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.
The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.
At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.
The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.
Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?
Do not form your judgment about our military doctrine from the assessments given by NATO representatives.
Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Solidarity...is a structural value of the social doctrine, as Blessed John Paul II reminded us.
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence
The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.
Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.
Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.
The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.
The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.
Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.
Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.
The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.
What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?
The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.
The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars
Traditional Judaism has always embraced the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the dead.
Only the continuous and steady application of the methods for suppressing a doctrine, etc., makes it possible for a plan to succeed.
The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one's friends but of one's enemies.
We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine.
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
Our government denies that terrorism is caused by Islamic doctrine. Now, that is true, and it is a declarative statement. It's not arguable.
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.
The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.
Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.
There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.
Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.
The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation.
The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.
If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.
There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.
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