#doctrine

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

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#ashamed #christ #doctrine #i #jesus

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#doctrines #ideas #perfection #totalitarian

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#dominating #follow #human #human mind #mind

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#case #doctrine #general #ideas #mechanical

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

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#advocacy #amongst #any #doctrines #feel

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#contests #deal #dislike #doctrines #events

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument. ↗

— Iain Pears

#blind-faith #disagreement #discussion #doctrine #faith

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse." (History Will Teach Us Nothing) ↗

— Sting

#dogma #faith #fundamentalism #radicalism #reason

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#doctrine #exaggeration #primness #religion #art