Famous Quotes & Sayings

David A. Bednar

As we become more spiritually mature and increasingly steadfast and immovable, we focus upon and strive to understand the fundamental and foundational doctrines of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

Paul Wolfowitz

Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

Octavio Paz

Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

Gore Vidal

It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.

Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life

Robert Ingersoll

Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any doctrine that makes the world your friend is not your friend.

William Shakespeare

I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

Charles Stanley

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Blaise Pascal

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Baruch Spinoza

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

Edwin Louis Cole

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

C. S. Lewis

Obedience is the road to freedom.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

B. F. Skinner

Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.