Quotes About Doctrine

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

Utilitarianism: A moral and political philosophy that proposes the doctrine of the greatest good/happiness for the greatest number of people. According to one of Utilitarianism's chief architects, Jeremy Bentham, the basic idea is to find a balance between the individual's happiness and the happiness of the community, "each counting in an equal way." In positing happiness as its aim, Utilitarianism is a type of hedonism.

I'm first a Christian, next a Catholic, then a Calvinist, fourth a Paedobaptist and finally a Presbyterian. I cannot reverse the order.

The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing.

Ye that are of good understanding, note the doctrine that is hidden under the veil of the strange verses!

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

The massive sexual dysfunction of the contemporary Catholic Church began with Augustine.

The Laches Doctrine is one of my favorites to practice daily

The series is founded upon the premise of no "Pre-Tribulation Rapture" of the Church. Although it is a popularly held doctrine by many Christians, I believe we have accepted it in error in the hope we would be spared the hardships and trials mentioned in Revelation. Whether it shall come to pass, whether the Church will be spared tribulation or be forced with a difficult choices in a fight against the forces of darkness, remains to be seen. I can promise you,

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to my church as a human being.

There is no heresy or philosophy so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Where is there a systematic theology class that helps students realize that when you unpack the inclination or the nature of the Trinity or the two natures of Christ or the substitutionary atonement, you commune with the Lord as you defend and contend for the doctrine, or else you are not doing it right? No wonder people often don't want to be around doctrinally driven individuals! They are not doing doctrine right. They are not emotionally in touch with the truths they are teaching.

A person who can believe all the articles of the Christian faith is not going to boggle over a trifle of adverse evidence.

Together with this outrage we may take the mutilation of the novel called The Search at the exact point where the author upholds, or appears for the moment to uphold, the doctrine that loyalty to the abstract truth must override all personal considerations;

But, looking round at the world as it is, it seems to me (I speak as a fool) that youth is all out for dogma, and that if boys and girls grow up imagining that Christianity has no dogma to give them, they'll give themselves over to political dogma or economic dogma in its crudest and most intransigent form.

Taking the 'desert island challenge' which leads Christians to submit their family life to Sola Scriptura inevitably leads them to desire to submit their corporate worship to Sola Scriptura. (Excerpt from the forward of How God Wants Us to Worship Him by Joseph C. Morecraft)

doxology can help stabilize theology. It is very difficult to sing bad theology.

For Watts, the doxological always followed the theological.

The pure doctrine of the Gospel will not endure in its purity when we read the Bible for moral advice. . . . Clearly the Bible has instructions with implications that instruct us about many things, but that's not what we ought to go hunting for when we read it. We look for Christ in every phrase.

He said he had been converted to atheism at the age of six, when his Sunday school teacher had described with relish the eternal fires of Hell.

It is false to suppose that so long as Scripture and doctrine are preserved, disciplinary and liturgical tradition can safely be modernised at will.

It's neither Marxism nor Communism I repudiate; the use certain people have made of Marxism and Communism is what I condemn. What I want is that Marxism and Communism be harnessed into the service of coloured peoples, and not coloured people into the service of Marxism and Communism. That the doctrine and the movement be tailored to fit men, not men to fit the movement. And - of course - that goes for others besides Communists.

In the Bible, man is only free to submit or be damned. His one freedom is the renunciation of that freedom. He finds his "salvation" by freely accepting his subjugation. The Christian ideal, says Saint Paul, is to be freely "subservient to God" (Romans 6:22).