Quotes About Doctrine

It is not possible even to state the doctrine of an atheistic creation without using the language of theism in the statement.

The truth of the gospel is intended to free us to love God and others with our whole heart. When we ignore this heart aspect of our faith and try to live out our religion solely as correct doctrine or ethics, our passion is crippled, or perverted, and the divorce of our soul from the heart purposes of God toward us is deepened. The

There are no formulas with God. Period. So there are no formulas for the man who follows him. God is a Person, not a doctrine. He operates not like a system—not even a theological system—but with all the originality of a truly free and alive person.

Christianity is not a set of convictions—it is a truth. The most offensive thing imaginable.

A student of Christology needs to be constantly reminded that while there is progress in doctrine, there is no increase in scriptural revelation.

No religion is the only religion, no church the true church.

But most Christians I know are quite good at cherry-picking their way through the Holy Scriptures.

There is a dramatic difference between historic Christianity and the teachings of Jesus Christ. I publicly state that I am not a follower of historic Christianity; I am a follower of Jesus Christ!

And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.

The profession and the developments of a doctrine are according to the emergency of the time, and silence at a certain period implies, not that it was not then held, but that it was not questioned.

While the world lasts, will Aristotle's doctrine on these matters last, for he is the oracle of nature and of truth. While we are men, we cannot help, to a great extent, being Aristotelians, for the great Master does but analyze the thoughts, feelings, views, and opinions of human kind.

A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine

Doctrine without its correspondent principle remains barren, if not lifeless, of which the Greek Church seems an instance; or

Catholicism is a deep matter. You cannot take it up in a teacup" [..] "You must consent to think.

we must determine whether on the one hand Christianity is still to represent to us a definite teaching from above, or whether on the other its utterances have been from time to time so strangely at variance, that we are necessarily thrown back on our own judgment individually to determine, what the revelation of God is, or rather if in fact there is, or has been, any revelation at all.

Again, Arius asserted that the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity was not able to comprehend the First, whereas Eunomius's characteristic tenet was that all men could comprehend God as fully as the Son comprehended Him Himself; yet no one can doubt that Eunomianism was a true development, not a corruption of Arianism.

Father Alfonso and Father Octavio could make Pepe feel as if he were a betrayer of the Catholic faith—as if he were a raving secular humanist, or worse. (Could there be anyone worse, from a Jesuitical perspective?) Father Alfonso and Father Octavio knew their Catholic dogma by rote; while the two priests talked circles around Brother Pepe, and they made Pepe feel inadequate in his belief, they were irreparably doctrinaire.

But I also think the doctrine of laissez faire, carried to its extreme, is equally repugnant. Too many capitalists use laissez faire as an excuse to gouge the public and exploit the poor.

An Example from Recent History Before the Second World War, Adolf Hitler began to preach the doctrine of the Aryan "super race." This gospel of Aryan superiority enabled world rulers of this present darkness to move that corporate stronghold over the German mentality. Whoever among the German nation

The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.