#doctrine

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#doctrine #kill #man

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. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#doctrine #guilt #make #nothing #ourselves

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aesthetic #allows #doctrine #doubt #doubts

In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity. ↗

— Marco Antonio De Dominis

#catholicity #church-unity #doctrine #dogma #truth

The problem with churches of all sorts,” he continued, “is that so often they ignore the key teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, like the doctrine of love. So often we ask God to be on our side instead of asking that we be blessed enough to be on his. That said, the wheat and the tares must grow up together, and in the days of harvest they will be separated properly. ↗

— David Holdsworth

#compassion #doctrine #god-s-love #harvest #joy

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

Many today view love and doctrine as enemies, or at best as rivals. ↗

— Bobby Jamieson

#doctrine #love

We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation. ↗

— Steve Turner

#pluralism #reductionism #religion #dating

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#anarchist #brutal #communist #destruction #doctrines

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine. ↗

— Walter Martin

#areas #basic #bit #book #collected