Quotes by Doctrine Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers. Jerry Fodor individualism doctrine respect Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. Jim Butcher doctrine elements fire Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the intricate web of co-arising that links one being with all other beings, and to apprehend the reciprocities between thought and action, self and universe. Joanna Macy doctrine links self The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work. John Andreas Widtsoe doctrine church light We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest conviction. But we are called on to trust--to trust ourselves to God, being sure that He will lead us right--to keep close to Him--and to trust the promises which He whispers through our conscience; this we can do, and we ought to do. John Campbell Shairp doctrine believe promise The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. John Calvin doctrine tongue Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life. John Calvin doctrine tongue affair There are nine countries in the world that have nuclear weapons. There are about 27,000 nuclear weapons total on the planet. The countries that have nuclear weapons deploy them ready for use and have doctrines saying that they would use them in certain circumstances. John Burroughs doctrine nuclear country Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity. John Gresham Machen doctrine elements two Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith. John Gresham Machen doctrine hero Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it. John Donne doctrine bread believe When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it refers to a religion accepted by the large majority, which assures them that God is not so much a Lord who demands obedience as a handyman who is available whenever we need help. John Howard doctrine majority christian Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart. John Greenleaf Whittier heresy doctrine heart The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy. John Knox doctrine add world We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much. John Kenneth Galbraith doctrine money littles And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern. John Dryden doctrine church running The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. John Lancaster Spalding doctrine vanity despair There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words. John Locke doctrine giving way It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions. John Maynard Keynes doctrine mind thinking He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian. John Locke doctrine deny christian «89101112131415161718»