Quotes About Doctrine

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.

Many times when people leave churches we think it's a doctrinal issue, but most of the time it's a leadership issue.

Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord.

Las iglesias con frecuencia eligen a un nuevo pastor en base a su personalidad, apariencia, o carisma, y no en los requisitos bíblicos de piedad, doctrina, y su habilidad de manejar la Palabra de Dios.

Aprendemos que la salvación siempre ha sido solo por la fe en Cristo solamente. Un verdadero hijo de Dios no viene por nacimiento natural ni por circuncisión ni por obras, sino por la fe. Toda la Escritura apunta a una sola persona. Toda la Escritura se centra en Cristo Jesús.

This Church is the Lord's vehicle for crucial doctrines, ordinances, covenants, and keys that are essential to exaltation, and one cannot be fully faithful to the gospel of Jesus Christ without striving to be faithful in the Church, which is its earthly institutional manifestation.

Then I had the comforting idea that my first thought wasn't as painful as it sounded. However frightening it may be to realize that all of us have sinned, however frightening it may be to contemplate a just God, surely it is infinitely more frightening to contemplate an unjust God. A basic principle of Latter-day Saint doctrine is that in order to go forward, we have to know that God is just.

Theology very naturally follows belief, but belief very rarely follows judgment.

Prior Robert looked round for the few Welshmen among the brothers, passed somewhat hurriedly over Brother Cadfael, who had never been one of his favourites, perhaps by reason of a certain spark in his eye, as well as his notoriously worldly past, and lit gladly upon Old Brother Rhys, who was virtually senile but doctrinally safe, and had the capacious if capricious memory of the very old.

It is not reasonings that are wanted now,' he says, 'for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings. What is wanted, then? The man who shall apply them; whose actions may bear testimony to his doctrines. Assume this character for me, that we may no longer make use in the schools of the examples of the ancients, but may have some examples of our own.

Stoicism was founded in the third century BC by Zeno of Citium; Cleanthes succeeded him as head of the school. But it was Cleanthes' successor, Chrysippus (d. 208 BC), who contributed most to the development of Stoic doctrine and deserves most of the credit for what Stoicism eventually became – the dominant philosophy of the post-classical era.

If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice.

The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.

It is futile to judge the viability of a new movement by the truth of its doctrine and the feasibility of its promises. What has to be judged is its corporate organization for quick and total absorption of the frustrated. Where new creeds vie with each other for the allegiance of the populace, the one which comes with the most perfected collective framework wins.

For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image.

in order to be effective a doctrine must not be understood, but has rather to be believed in. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.