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

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Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

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There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

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My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.

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If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

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

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Only the continuous and steady application of the methods for suppressing a doctrine, etc., makes it possible for a plan to succeed.

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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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Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.

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

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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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I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

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

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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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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

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