Quotes About Doctrine

And when we designed the church, we intentionally made the divine aspect of it as ambiguous as possible. People don't mind having the mystical aspect of a church being poorly defined as long as you make the rules of the church clear. We

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

Without the Holy Bible, how can we believe in God?

Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith...it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine.

What's up is faith what's down is heresy.

I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.

No religious doctrine shall be established by law.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

Jesus did not have human blood: He was born of the virgin Mary with the divine blood of His Father.

Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence.

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

Cultural predilections are not to be confused with theological absolutes. The former are preferences - the latter are immutable.

Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.

Results have proved that minute setting forth of doctrine and theological distinctions are not only non-essential but their absence is strongly conducive to the spirituality of the Church of God, and the success of its work.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.

Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.