Quotes About Doctrine

I think there's a lot that's beautiful about religion and very inspiring, obviously, but I do think that God needs to be rescued from religion actually.

You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God.

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in Gods revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.

He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.

When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.

To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed

Belief about God is religion. Belief in God is faith.

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

Evangelicals have to face it (like Roman Catholics of 16th century had to): Increasingly, our version of Good News is neither news nor good.

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Our government denies that terrorism is caused by Islamic doctrine. Now, that is true, and it is a declarative statement. It's not arguable.

At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery.

Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.