#doctrines

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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

— James A. Garfield

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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

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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

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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. ↗

— Simone Weil

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

— William Gurnall

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

— O. Henry

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The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery. ↗

— John H. Reagan

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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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