Quotes About Doctrine

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.

If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?

The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.

I never feel to force my doctrine upon any person; I rejoice to see prejudice give way to truth, and the traditions of men dispersed by the pure principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

A noble truth is a sacred creed.

To preach the gospel is to stae every doctrine contained in God's word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.

Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.