#doctrine

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

— Thomas Goodwin

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Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves. ↗

— William Gurnall

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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

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And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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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

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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

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These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these. ↗

— Athanasius

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A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. ↗

— Tony Benn

#difference #doctrine #faith #kill #something

After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

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