Doctrinal Statement Quotes

#1. Youth in our Sunday school class can repeat almost verbatim some obscure parable we dramatized last year, and yet they forget the core doctrinal statement we taught last week. Why is this? Why does story stick with us for so long?

Sarah Arthur

#2. Its best, the church administers the sacraments by feeding, healing, forgiving, comforting, and welcoming home the people God loves. At its worst, the church withholds the sacraments in an attempt to lock God in a theology, a list of rules, a doctrinal statement, a building. But our

Rachel Held Evans

#3. It takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal statement of a truth with a living exemplification of that truth.

Henry Clay Trumbull

#4. When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.

Abu Abbas

#5. Growing up the way I did, I learned how easy it is for white people to get comfortable with a system that awards them all the perks. I

Trevor Noah

#6. Shit, money, and the Word, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate.

Thomas Pynchon

#7. The conduct of the criminal investigation has been left in the experienced hands of Inspector Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, who is following up the clues with his accustomed energy and sagacity.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zadie Smith

#9. ...people taking the time and energy to ask about what they do not understand - I have renewed hope that society can shed its superstitions and embrace the enlightenment that comes from just a basic understanding of how the universe works.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. Maybe. Just maybe ... Lettie smiled. That would do. It might be an impossible plan but it's worth a try.

Sam Gayton

#11. O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, ... I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

William Cowper

#12. There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness' and the onset of a covert and illegal campaign of domestic surveillance.

Michael Hastings

#13. The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#14. This moment is always the best one in which to express your care for others.

Sarah Ban Breathnach