Doctrines

//ˈdɒktɹɪnz//

"Doctrines" in a Sentence (8 examples)

Hui Shi had many ingenious notions. His writings would fill five carriages; but his doctrines were erroneous and contradictory, and his words were wide of their mark.

His teachings are incorporated in a profound book Daode Jing which Taoists regard as the final authority and doctrines of the religion.

Despite having studied proofs of evolution, some people have clung to traditional doctrines grounded more in mythology than in science.

An ecumenical council is a general worldwide conference of any church’s clergy and theologians who meet together, with the goal of agreeing on doctrines and practices.

I promised myself that I would never go to any church again because they all lie about the doctrines of God.

And if you wish to learn what the doctrines of Christianity are, appoint me a day, and thou shalt hear them.

He celebrated it by publishing in his magazine, "La Revue de Paris," an article in my honor, in which, after the usual reserves, and after declaring war upon my doctrines, he vowed my prose to be "fascinating," and complained of being so bewitched as to believe, at times, that he was converted to the cause of the throne and of the altar.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

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