Doctrines Of Men Quotes

#1. It might be added that the concept 'doctrines of men' [WCF 1.10] now arguably includes behaviourism, pragmatism, dynamic equivalence, and modern textual criticism.

J. Cammenga

#2. Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

Thomas Hobbes

#3. If you even think about touching her, I swear to God I will rip your heart out. - Chayse Pierce

Jalpa Williby

#4. Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.

Ludwig Von Mises

#5. I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

James A. Garfield

#6. What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted

Lin Yutang

#7. If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.

William Graham Sumner

#8. The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.

John Hagee

#9. Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

William O. Douglas

#10. Men had made, we believe, fundamental changes in the doctrines, purposes, and practices of the Pristine Gospel and Church. There had been an apostasy, or a falling away from the true character of Christ's teachings in the centuries which followed the Apostolic age.

Lowell L. Bennion

#11. O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

Saint Augustine

#12. As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies ... It is the attitude of these men, more than any communication which they make, that attracts us.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

H.L. Mencken

#14. One of the most fallacious doctrines originated by Satan and propounded by man is that man is saved alone by the grace of God; that belief in Jesus Christ alone is all that is needed for salvation

Spencer W. Kimball

#15. All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

George Santayana

#16. The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.

Charles Hodge

#17. I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity of their lives. Of such men we may more justly exclaim, than of Caesar, Confound their virtues, they've undone the world!

Charles Caleb Colton

#18. Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.

John Ruskin

#19. Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

Caleb Cushing

#20. I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

Paul Krugman

#21. The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

B. Joseph Pine II

#22. Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.

Ludwig Von Mises

#23. It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.

John Dos Passos

#24. The highest men are calm, silent and unknown ... The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in the vibrations the leave behind, and upon which the lesser gurus build their doctrines.

Tom Robbins

#25. If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject ...

William Graham Sumner

#26. The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

Thomas Jefferson

#27. The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

Amy Adams

#29. Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Charlie Kaufman

#30. If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.

William Law

#31. The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

Ayn Rand

#32. Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

Emile M. Cioran

#33. We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.

Jean De La Bruyere

#34. I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35.

Lawrence Schiller

#35. Ah-rah-han, the first Buddhist apostle of Burma, under the patronage of King Anan-ra-tha-men-zan, disseminated the doctrines of atheism and taught his disciples to pant after annihilation as the supreme good.

Adoniram Judson

#36. Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

Stephen Samuel Wise

#37. I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

Benjamin F. Wade