Quotes by Doctrine All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ. Eric Hoffer faithful doctrine reality What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure. Eric Hoffer pascal doctrine common-sense Pantaenus was one of these and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there who knew of Christ, he found the Gospel according to Matthew, which had anticipated his own arrival. For Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached to them, and left with them the writing of Matthew in the Hebrew language, which they had preserved till that time. After many good deeds, Pantaenus finally became the head of the school at Alexandria, and expounded the treasures of divine doctrine both orally and in writing. Eusebius doctrine writing school Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine? Felix Frankfurter doctrine wind sports That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics. Florence Nightingale doctrine god-love suffering Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. Flannery O'Connor dogma doctrine way The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions. Florence Nightingale medical-profession doctrine mind The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant Francis Parker Yockey doctrine constant expression I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government. Franklin D. Roosevelt doctrine politics government The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness. Francis Bacon carefulness cleanliness doctrine When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of an object itself, he is very close to the rationalist doctrine. Hume was really a covert objectivist (or partial one) about aesthetic pleasure because that pleasure had to be based on the sensitivity to features in the object. Frederick C. Beiser delicacy doctrine matter It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ. Frederick William Robertson doctrine understanding jesus The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. Freeman Dyson doctrine tools science God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word. Galileo Galilei doctrine known Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than every word, for it arises out of the truth of who you are. This truth is all you have ever longed for, all you have ever needed. Gangaji doctrine truth-is belief [Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood. Galileo Galilei copernicus doctrine scripture They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit. Galileo Galilei doctrine men religion The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal". Friedrich Nietzsche justice-equality doctrine would-be The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice. Friedrich Nietzsche doctrine equality justice The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin. George C. Homans doctrine liberty men «345678910111213»