Quotes About Doctrine

It was out of a crucible of experiences that the papacy emerged. Attending to those experiences makes for clearer understanding of the history, whatever one thinks of the doctrine of the papacy itself.

that simply teaching doctrine or preaching on a matter does not equate to actual ministry. Further engagement is required.

facts never disconfirm a good ideology

Too often Christians today have only two gears on their theological bike: essential and unimportant.

Too often Christians today have only two gears on their theological bike: essential and unimportant. If something is not essential for salvation, it is treated as unimportant and therefore dismissable. But the Bible presents us with a number of matters that are not essential for salvation but which nonetheless are important, even necessary, for obedience to God's Word.

A deception of cosmic proportions is coming. It won't be just a false doctrine, a defective world-view, or one of the tragic "isms" so prevalent today. It will include a comprehensive global leadership backed by supernatural powers and capabilities that will overwhelm the imagination of the world at large. And it will be authenticated by miracles—great signs and lying wonders.

At a certain point, professors stopped being usefully sensitive and became more like careful retailers who have it as a cardinal point of doctrine never to piss the customer off.

The greatest danger to the church today is not humanism, paganism, atheism or agnosticism. The greatest danger is not increasing hostility against our faith from the culture. Our greatest danger is apostasy on the inside, arising from false teachers- theological liberals who deny and distort biblical doctrine and lead others down the same path.

T]o consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine

Church teaching stated the conditions under which citizens could kill tyrants. Catholic doctrine permitted capital punishment; and though a priest himself could not shed blood, a Christian knight could wield the sword of justice at the bidding of a priest.

A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows.

If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

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

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Few maxims are true in every respect.

Christians label those who disagree with them heretics and false teachers.

Of course, the Catholics also believed in grace and faith. But they disagreed on how grace and faith were effected and experienced and what part the church to which they all belonged was to play.

I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

If you consider this subject unnecessary for Christians, then please quit the field; you and I have nothing in common, for I consider it vital.