Quotes About Doctrine

I confess [Election] is a hard doctrine, running contrary to our earthly ideas of fair play, but I can see no way around it. Read I Corinthians 6:13 and II Timothy 1:9,10. Also I Peter 1:2,19,20 and Romans 11:7. There you have it. It was good for Paul and Silas and it is good enough for me. It is good enough for you too.

Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview.

Rejection was to be rejection but not denial, as reception was to be reception but not subservience. Both methods, the Affirmative Way and the Negative Way, were to co-exist; one might almost say, to co-inhere, since each was to be the key of the other: in intellect as in emotion, in morals as in doctrine.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The purpose behind all doctrine is to secure moral action.

The apotheosis of error, doctrine of the crowd.

Parenthetically, in the West's current war against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, it would be good for the leaders to remember this "Islamic tactic of warfare." According to this "religious" doctrine of Islam, what Muslims say does not have to be true— after all, to them, "War is deception." And the end justifies the means.

If orthodoxy is impure water, he tells us, neology is liquid manure.

The sensus communis plays no part in Kant—not even in the logical sense. What Kant treats in the transcendental doctrine of judgment—i.e., the doctrine of schematism and the principles—no longer has anything to do with the sensus communis.57 For here we are concerned with concepts that are supposed to refer to their objects a priori, and not with the subsumption of the particular under the universal.

Christian faith must be personal in the sense that each person individually understands the historic faith and personally commits himself to it, but not in the sense that he decides what it should be.

A nontheological faith cannot explain itself, but a too theological faith loses contact with the reason for its existence.

Well," said St. Clare, "suppose that something shoul bring down the price of cotton once and forever, and make the whole slave property a drug in the market, don't you think we should soon have another version of the Scripture doctrine? What flood of light would pour the church, all at once, and immediately it would be discovered that everything in the bible and reason went the other way.

Each provision of the Constitution is important, and I cannot subscribe to a doctrine of unlimited absolutism for the First Amendment at the cost of downgrading other provisions.

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

LOVE is the most powerful force in the entire Universe. It is the glue that will bond our belief together, instead of the doctrine that does it for the other systems. Love is not being recognized for its power, and it is not being used by us correctly.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered.

A dogma will thrive in soil where the truth could not get root.

It was contrary to every doctrine of hers that difference of fortune should keep any couple asunder who were attracted by resemblance of disposition;

Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.