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Notable quotes

“Nothing can be progressive without being doctrinal.”
— G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905), Ch. II: "On the Negative Spirit".
“My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”
— Anna Sewell, Black Beauty (London: Jarrold and Sons, 1877), Ch. XXXVIII, p. 192.
“Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.”
— Thomas Fuller, Church History, Section II, Book IV. Par. 53. Wickliffe's body was burned, the ashes thrown into the brook Swift, by order of the Council of Constance, 1415.
“The law of England is wisely reluctant to admit any doctrine which is repugnant to the settled principles and policy of its own institution.”
— Stuart, V.-C., Brook v. Brook (1858), 6 W. R. 452.
“A most unjust doctrine and I shall not extend it.”
— Romer, J., in reference to the doctrine expounded in Tweedale v. Tweedale, 23 Beav. 341.
“Religion, as embodied in the character and conduct of its disciples, cannot survive without doctrinal purity. In the absence of this element, religious feeling inevitably decays; while even religious necessity becomes a thing of naught.”
— John McClellan Holmes, p. 194.

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