#oct

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #before #cart #comprehension #doctrines

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

#alone #contain #doctrine #fountains #godliness

We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated. ↗

— Julian Assange

#deal #dealing #doctor #forward #identifying

America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#america #any #been #care #cost

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business. ↗

— Colin Baker

#aware #business #doctor #else #fact

Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October. ↗

— Peter Bart

#ceo #disney #down #eisner #entertainment

If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God. ↗

— Bob Bartlett

#children #doctors #faith #god #instead

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October. ↗

— Whitey Ford

#around #baseball #going #granted #kind

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. ↗

— James D. Watson

#adherence #based #doctrinaire #everyone #evolution

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