Doctrinal Statements Quotes

#1. Does anyone really think that America today is lacking preachers, books, Bible translations, and neat doctrinal statements? What we really lack is the passion to call upon the Lord until he opens the heavens and shows himself powerful.

Jim Cymbala

#2. I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements to be metaphors or allegories.

Philip Kitcher

#3. Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

Daniel H. Hill

#4. Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Blaise Pascal

#5. The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#6. ... the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.

Robert M. Pirsig

#7. The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.

Pema Chodron

#8. I didn't know children's songs could be this deadly ...

Onew

#9. Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Mignon McLaughlin

#10. I don't hate journalists. You can't hate a class of people. It's wrong to say that. But I do think they're a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can't trust them as a class of people. It's their job not to be trusted.

Mick Jagger

#11. The Negro's economic problem was compounded by the emergence and growth of automation. Since discrimination and lack of education confined him to unskilled and semi-skilled labor, the Negro was and remains the first to suffer in these days of great technological development.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

Richard Perle

#13. Nobody does ladders like Jeff Hardy.

Matt Hardy

#14. Every human being is ... equally unfree, that is, we ... create out of freedom, a prison ...

Otto Rank

#15. Do we have a flamethrower?" Curran asked.
"No."
"We should get a flamethrower.

Ilona Andrews