Doctrine quotes

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The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.

- Joseph Ratzinger

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

- Joseph Ratzinger

Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.

- Thomas Goodwin

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

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

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

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

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.

- Arthur Middleton

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.

- Aly Khan

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

- William Gurnall

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

- John Polkinghorne

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

- Charles Spurgeon

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

- Junius

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

- Nancy Pelosi

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

- Joseph Ratzinger

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

- Harlan Stone

This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.

- Benjamin Tucker

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.

- Wilhelm Dilthey

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

- Joseph Ratzinger

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

- Joseph Ratzinger