"You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'."
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"The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate."
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"In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds."
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"For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system in which every star was a sun, and the universe was a vast place with no centre."
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"According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it."
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"When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian."
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"The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress."
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"I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ."
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"The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus ."
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"There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector"
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"Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes."
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"The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another."
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"The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others."
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"The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion."
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"There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding."
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"All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains."
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"Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world."
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"I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented."
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"It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding."
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"The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom."
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