Doctrine Quotes

The ‘doctrines’ we get out of the true myth are of course less true: they are translations into our ...

For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotion...

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by seve...

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfo...

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. Lower the Law and y...

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ...

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose...

The fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelation...

They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people...

No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification...

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the bus...

"Orthodoxy my Lord " said Bishop Warburton in a whisper - "orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy...

I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God....

Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. ...

Christianity is not a doctrine, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the huma...

Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of w...

Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of w...

I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. ...

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in trans...

The Christian motto 'All men are brothers', however, also means that those who do not accept brother...

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own c

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.")

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for exco...

For Abelard, the death of Christ on the Cross did not, strictly speaking, redeem man: it only offere...

It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is...

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard...

But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons ...

The Master made it his task to destroy systematically everydoctrine, every belief, every concept of ...