Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Miracle Quotes, Doctrine Quotes

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.

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Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

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The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

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When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

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I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs.

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Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

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The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".

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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

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Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

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I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

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The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

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Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

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Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

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