PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
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Optimism, n. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
AMBROSE BIERCE OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for relief.
AMBROSE BIERCE To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dre...
TIM LAHAYE Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
AMBROSE BIERCE The word of God is a divine doctrine.
LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA The problem with free will doctrine is that it empowers man to God status..
NORM TOMLINSON Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
AMBROSE BIERCE It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth ...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God
ANDREW WHITE Everything else is expendable, but not humanhood. Every scripture, every god, every angel, every mes...
ABHIJIT NASKAR OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for relief....
AMBROSE BIERCE To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dre...
TIM LAHAYE The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.
EMIL BRUNNER Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 Knowledge of God can be fully giv...
WILLIAM TEMPLE I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to...
CHARLES SPURGEON I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certaint...
YEHUDA BERG The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it...
RICK WARREN OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everythi...
AMBROSE BIERCE It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and govern...
CHARLES HODGE Listen for the whisper in everything because that is God speaking.
JIM GENOVESE Our God is the owner of everything that exist
SUNDAY ADELAJA In the Old Testament, we find the idea that God enters into the sufferings of His people. "In all th...
B. H. STREETER There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.” ~ Ambrose ...
J.J. MCAVOY All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on t...
WANGARI MAATHAI A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Ame...
JACKIE ROBINSON Everything we need is in God; it is hidden in God
SUNDAY ADELAJA Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. You are the god. Everything is there to serve you. Don’t forget that you are there to serve everyo...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Everything is 5 elements. Everyone is only One. There is no Second. So God knows Everything. And God...
APURVA GAGLANI Everything is in the hands of God. We know that if God wants, sooner or later Ahmed will be released...
AHMED ABU Everything is in the hands of God. We know that if God wants, sooner or later Ahmed will be released...
AHMED OMAR ABU ALI Einmal hat ihm einer im Schlaf die Schuhe ausgezogen, reingeschissen und wieder angezogen. Um diese ...
HEINZ STRUNK But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. T...
JOHNATHAN SAFRAN FOER He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as sim...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
AMBROSE BIERCE Timing is everything.
MOLLY SIMS Timing is everything.
TOMMY SHAW Everything that originates from God will endure the test of time. Therefore, it is good to check out...
ERIC LUDY An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
AMBROSE BIERCE SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous do...
AMBROSE BIERCE The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of...
LARRY BURKETT What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it ge...
CRISS JAMI Everything is Temporary, Everything does not stay forever. One thing that will stay with you is GOD.
JASON MCKAY God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human being...
ABRAHAM VERGHESE It is much less important that the doctrine itself should be fully comprehensible. We believe that t...
C.S. LEWIS Some people think there is no evil in God, despite knowing that God knows everything and creates all...
TOBA BETA If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything is tangential; the...
HERMANN HESSE The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.
TRUMAN DOCTRINE We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
EMILE M. CIORAN I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time...
TANA FRENCH The Christ is God-for-us! But God is not only for us, [God] is for everything created.
PAUL TILLICH Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disp...
EDWARD VIII Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the na...
BIBLE It is clear that Nature created everything , not an Intelligent designer . The reason is because nat...
REYNALD PETER SANDEL The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book
of morals, and a book of religion,...
DANIEL WEBSTER Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best
defence against a knave.
PLUTARCH The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public
good.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Everything is a blessing from God, from the water in which we drink to the bread that nourishes us.
A.J. CHILSON God knows Everyone. God knows Everything. God knows everything about everyone.
APURVA GAGLANI No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ...
H. P. LOVECRAFT The purpose of the creation doctrine, then, is not to ascribe a chronological starting-point to the ...
KALLISTOS WARE A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never...
ORSON PRATT Timing is everything with relationships.
RASHIDA JONES Everything that God intends are all written there in the Bible
SUNDAY ADELAJA Everything in life is on loan from God.
CLAIRE RAW Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the gr...
JOHN POLKINGHORNE He who doesn’t believe that God can do everything believes in a god who can do something! He who k...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable...
KARL RAHNER Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of ...
JOHN PIPER Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides ...
J. I. PACKER The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do n...
OSWALD CHAMBERS God has given you everything that is needed for life and godliness.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I have a hunch that the last institution around at this moment which has a high doctrine of sex is t...
WILLIAM SWING Instead of swinging back and forth between individual points of truth, each piece we learn should bu...
AMY LAYNE LITZELMAN If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States ca...
CARLOS FUENTES If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed....
G.K. CHESTERTON Money is not everything.
BEN OAK I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER There is a crack in everything God has made.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.
ELLEN G. WHITE Everything is possible to god, even your success
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA God Is Great. If these three words together enshrine in our mind, heart and soul, then there is neve...
ANUJ SOMANY I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctri...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Everything is possible through God, and I'm living proof of that.
TYSON FURY Everything you pass through is a way God is putting his compassion in your heart for that field
SUNDAY ADELAJA I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-...
MAHATMA GANDHI I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
MAHATMA GANDHI I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
MOHANDAS GANDHI The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants
and the Calvinistic doctrine of rep...
WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY Satan isn't anything to believe in but there are people running things whose God is Lucifer. Check o...
JAMES DYE If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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AMBROSE BIERCE Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
AMBROSE BIERCE Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and wa...
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