Religious Doctrines Quotes

#1. The first is the Credo quia absurdum of the early Father. It would imply that religious doctrines are outside reason's jurisdiction; they stand above reason. Their truth must be inwardly felt: one does not need to comprehend them.

Sigmund Freud

#2. Religious doctrines ... are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

Sigmund Freud

#3. Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

Clarence Darrow

#4. The idea that we sacrifice our innate wisdom at the feet of our Guides is really no different from the rigid religious doctrines that talked us out of our childhood spiritual knowing.

S. Kelley Harrell

#5. At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.

Leon Bourgeois

#6. For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be in politics, but should become a reformer, if he has what it takes!

Adolf Hitler

#7. 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

#8. My mind rejects the whole present social order and Christianity - home, the recognised virtues, classes of life, and religious doctrines

James Joyce

#9. 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

#10. people's attempts to mangle religious doctrines to fit their own purposes.

Joyce Brandon

#11. When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly surprised at the weakness of his intellect.

Sigmund Freud

#12. If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?

Sigmund Freud

#13. It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#14. Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

Sidney Hook

#15. I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

Carl Rogers

#16. When you move to a new environment with cultural and social characteristics different from your own, it is only logical, that you loosen some of the knots of your religious doctrines, to embrace the new and vivid environment as much as you wish to be embraced by the environment.

Abhijit Naskar

#17. Demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.

Michelangelo Signorile

#18. For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

Rick Mears

#19. Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.

Abhijit Naskar

#20. It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

Agnes Repplier

#21. The Egyptians have always been deeply impressed by the fact of human mortality, and much of their religious belief and religious ritual is taken up with the rites of burial, and detailed doctrines as to the experience of the soul after parting from the body.

Anonymous

#22. A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.

Albert Einstein

#23. A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

Cat Deeley

#24. There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

William Golding

#25. Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Plato

#26. I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

Thomas Jefferson

#27. Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.

Abhijit Naskar

#28. Does it never strike you that doubt can be a madness, as well as faith? That asking questions may be a disease, as well as proclaiming doctrines? You talk of religious mania! Is there no such thing as irreligious mania?

G.K. Chesterton

#29. It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about people who would neither refute an argument nor accept it.

Ayn Rand

#30. When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects his views into the political debate, he is immediately denounced as a 'reactionary.'

Benjamin Hart

#31. Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.

Nancy Cartwright

#32. Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.

Frederick Lenz

#33. Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#34. The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.

Aldous Huxley