Quotes About Doctrine

Douglas claimed that in his New Salem days Lincoln "could ruin more liquor than all the boys of the town together"—a charge that was not merely inaccurate but singularly inappropriate from a senator known to have a fondness for drink—and Lincoln jeered that Douglas's popular-sovereignty doctrine was "as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death.

The bigotry of theologians [is] a malady which seems almost incurable.

The evangelism of Billy Graham is revered, so that if one dares to call the message of Graham the doctrine of Pelagius out of hell, as the Canons of Dordt do indeed call it, he is likely to be stoned as a blasphemer in the streets of Reformed Jerusalem. (3rd edn, p. 63)

Although there is validity, I believe, in leaving a church where the leadership consistently presents false doctrine, I also see people who are offended by one remark from the pulpit or one perceived hurt flit to the next church to look for fault there. It's like the cartoon I saw of a skeleton dressed in women's clothes and sitting on a park bench; the caption read, 'Waiting for the perfect man.' There is no perfect church either.

Christian theology must free the gospel not only to specify the answers but also to shape the questions.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.

Kill them all, for God knows His own.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

[Muhammad] said, "...fight everyone in the way of God and kill those who disbelieve in God..."

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.

This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more radical than that. It means that God is like Jesus.

When we change the message of God, we change the God of the message.

There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence.

To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour.

I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.

The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her.

I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God. I therefore believe that, whatever it says, is so.

It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.