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"Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature."
"Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation."
"Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest."
"Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history."
"Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge."
"The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered."
"All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny."
"I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal."
"I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le."
"I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others."
"The level of vitriol against Jews and Christianity within contemporary Islam, unfortunately, is something that we are not totally cognizant of, or that we don't want to accept. We don't want to accept it because to do so would be to acknowledge that one of the world's great religions -- which has more than 1.4 billion adherents -- somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine."
"The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them."
"The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines."
"The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless."
"There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores."
"My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa."
"I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster."
"To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind."
"This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour."
"We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine."
