Quotes About Doctrine

The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.

A lot of people have a belief system that is strictly based on religious dogma.

As we become more spiritually mature and increasingly steadfast and immovable, we focus upon and strive to understand the fundamental and foundational doctrines of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

The great majority of the nobility and gentry of England clung to the doctrine and ceremonies of the ancient church, and yet were united in determination to oppose the papal claims.

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.

I'm against organised religion of any kind.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

A cult is a religion with no political power

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.

Bad theology begets ugly Christianity. Good theology begets beautiful Christianity.

the church doctrines of sin and salvation are based upon pre-Christian conceptions ultimately dating back to human sacrifices and the mystic rites of cannibalism in which man hoped to partake of divinity and immortality by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of his incarnated God or his representative.

to rid the people of their old beliefs and insert new ones.

the doctrine of isolationism and

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

A soldier lives . . . Ã¢â'¬Â   A soldier lives a soldier dies a military chaplain sighs   a flag is folded someone cries a general tells the truth or lies   a politician simplifies a voice vote echoes only ayes   reporters ask for hows and whys a spokesman has to improvise   some doctrine somehow still applies negotiators compromise   or don't as one more soldier dies.   —Robert West

Calvin offers neither biblical nor rational proof for his (Augustine's) theory. In typical fashion, he mocks what he calls "the slanders of the ungodly" as though anyone who disagrees with him and Augustine is necessarily ungodly. Such would be his attitude toward many today who, professing a more moderate position, call themselves four-point or three-point Calvinists.