Quotes About Doctrine

And yet, rather than this I know that my Lord is different from the God that is preached in the churches.

Unlike scientific truths, which are cumulative and frequently superseded, archaisms are fixed, impervious to evidence. What is the doctrine of "the framers' original intent" and "constitutional originalism" but a variant of creationism and the denial of historical evolution

Its not living the gospel thats hard. Its life thats hard...How often do we make the mistake of talking to our youth about how hard it is...Shouldn't we instead be focusing on the doctrine of joy...? p 106

All the questions had been reduced to doctrine; all the doctrine had been simplified to catechism; all the catechism had been learned long ago.

Truth doesn't enter in if they've decided something is doctrine, they'll ignore all evidence to the contrary and lie to your face.

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card a tenet of faith. If you remove one card, the entire house collapses.

The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.

For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

And as for the Pope, I refuse him as Christ's enemy, and antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

I maintain no doctrines of my own; what I preach are the doctrines of Christ, and for those I will forfeit my blood, and even think myself happy to suffer for the sake of my Redeemer.

the pope's being infallible was an impossibility, and the pope arrogantly laid claim to what could belong to God only, as a perfect being.

the smoke of Patrick Hamilton hath infected all those on whom it blew.

Bucer did not hesitate to declare, that "Servetus deserved something worse than death.

Jerome was resolved to seal the doctrine with his blood; and he suffered death with the most distinguished magnanimity.

but maintained that the bishop of Rome had no authority whatever to dispense with the Word of God.

And yet, notwithstanding all these continual persecutions and horrible punishments, the Church daily increased, deeply rooted in the doctrine of the apostles and of men apostolical, and watered plentously with the blood of saints.

He was the first who termed the pope Antichrist.

Henry Fosdick says, "Until the New Theology can produce the sinless character of the old theology, it stands challenged.

I have never considered the exoteric doctrines of my associates very seriously... Some of the purest characters I have ever known are Roman catholics, and the most sordid, sectarians and presbyterians. Speculative opinions have less to do than is supposed with the conduct of men.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.