#doctrine

Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. (47) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#belief #believe #doctrine #teachers #teaching

Why are all the truly orthodox Christians--the doctrinally minded, theologically sound ones--complete jerks? Why are nice, loving Christians typically wishy-washier than Charlie Brown? ↗

— Alexis Neal

#meekness #relationships #love

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#choice #described #doctrine #first #government

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

#anarchism #associations #brings #described #doctrine

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

— Vernon A. Walters

#constructive #doctrine #i #participant

Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#dogma #foreign #foreign policy #gives #how

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#doctrine #like #many #pane #see

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

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

— O. Henry

#am #choice #discovering #doctrines #feed

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#another #apostle #called #censured #doctrines