#doctrine

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves. ↗

— Charles Williams

#doctrine #forgive #forgiven #holy #largesse

Christians—who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism—often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for “new” theologies, “new” ways of worship, and “new” music, being quite willing to toss out their entire “old-fashioned” Christian heritage. ↗

— Gene Edward Veith

#novelty #worship #music

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#belief #doctrine #everything #including #optimism

Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#been #believe #christ #christians #convinced

This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#apostles #christ #church #counsel #delivered

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#born #conduct #correct #doctrine #equal

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. ↗

— Earl Warren

#doctrine #education #equal #field #place

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#doctrine #logic #transcendental #world

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