Quotes About Doctrine

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in which neither anything whatever can be added by anyone nor anything taken away; for, unless faith be one, it is not the faith.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

Beyond a doubt, they perish eternally who do not keep the Catholic faith entire and unchanged.

You don't obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience.

Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.

Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.

...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).

Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.