Quotes About Doctrine

Israel's security doctrine is not that Israel must invade every place from which a threat to Israel emanates.

And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

Dhyan traveled from India to China along with the Buddhist monks, where it was referred to as Ch'an. This yoga traveled through the Southeast Asian countries to Japan and became Zen, and found expression as a whole system of direct insight without an emphasis on doctrine. Zen is a spiritual path that has no scriptures, books, rules, or rigid practices; it is an uncharted path.

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

I would not have believed the gospel had not the authority of the Church moved me.

He cannot have God for his father who has not the Church for his Mother.

You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian.

[That faith is catholic] which has been believed always, everywhere, and by all.

It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization.

And prove their doctrine orthodox,By apostolic blows and knocks.

Such as do build their faith uponThe holy text of pike and gun.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?About two hundred pounds a year.And that which was proved true before,Prove false again? Two hundred more.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again Two hundred more.

In order to fulfil its role in guarding the purity of its membership, the church must have a doctrinal standard, and that standard must be published openly, for men have a right to know by what particulars they will be judged. To require the church to exercise discipline against doctrinal error without a published confession of faith is to require it to make bricks without straw.

A church without a confession of faith may as well advertise that it is prepared to be a harbour for every kind of damning heresy and to be the soil for any who are given to growing the crop of novelty. A church without a confession of faith has the theological and ecclesiastical equivalent of AIDS, with no immunity against the infectious winds of false doctrine.

All denominations of Christians have really little difference in point of doctrine, though they may differ widely in external forms.

M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts.

Para los mariateguistas, la prioridad académica era el adoctrinamiento.

Youth in our Sunday school class can repeat almost verbatim some obscure parable we dramatized last year, and yet they forget the core doctrinal statement we taught last week. Why is this? Why does story stick with us for so long?

The cure for competing narratives is nothing more or less than the Apostles' Creed. Yes, I'll say that again: the creed is our story, succinctly stated.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

Love: Ah, Reason, says Love, you will always see with one eye only, you and all those who are nurtured by your doctrine. For the man is indeed one-eyed who sees the things which are before his eyes yet does not know what they are; and this is the case with you.

Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own.