Quotes About Doctrine

I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true and all others are not.

People don't change to suit their god; they change their god to suit them.

May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this—does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation?"43

It matters to God what is preached. And it matters to Him how it is preached. No man is free to preach whatever and however he so chooses.

The doctrines known as Calvinism are not something that emerged late in church history, but rather are that which takes its origins in the teachings of Jesus.1 —James Montgomery Boice

The only true reformation is that which emanates from the Word of God.

Take Christ from Christianity, and you disembowel it; there is practically nothing left. Christ is the centre of Christianity, all else is circumference." (Basic Christianity, page 27)

No matter how doctrinally sound we may be, if we are without love, we are "a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal" (1 Corinthians 13:1). Without love for others, regardless of how involved we are in Christian activities, we are "nothing.

Calvin was not a silver-tongued orator, but a Bible-teaching expositor. Above all else, he desired to bring his people to the Scriptures.

What is clear is that a spiritually dead sinner contributes nothing—except his sin—to His salvation, not even his faith.

False doctrine was threatening to disconnect the Philippian believers from their source of joy in Jesus Christ.

Spurgeon was once asked how he could reconcile the apparent contradiction between these two truths. He replied: "I never have to reconcile friends. Divine sovereignty and human responsibility have never had a falling out with each other. I do not need to reconcile what God has joined together."2

No man will preach the gospel aright who does not wholly believe it."5

The majority of people were possessive of their theologies, and strongly resented disbelief and criticism from others.

No Church has done more to fill the world with gloom than the Presbyterian. Its creed is frightful, hideous, and hellish. The Presbyterian God is the monster of monsters. He is an eternal executioner, jailer and turnkey. He will enjoy forever the shrieks of the lost — the wails of the damned. Hell is the festival of the Presbyterian God.

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

Milton Friedman. Friedman had a solid MV = PQ doctrine from which he deviated very little all his life. By the way, he's about as smart a guy as you'll meet. He's as persuasive as you hope not to meet.

Anyone that's ever listened to my message knows very well, that I believe in very solid biblical beliefs.

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.

A theological articulation can be fruitful in one place at one time but not at that same place at a different time or at a different place at the same time.

each religious sect has their own view and interpretation of the Bible.

A follower of the teachings of Christ is a Christian, not a person who attends a specific Organized Church.

The term "shock doctrine" describes the quite brutal tactic of systematically using the public's disorientation following a collective shock—wars, coups, terrorist attacks, market crashes, or natural disasters—to push through radical pro-corporate measures, often called "shock therapy.

It is precisely because the dream of economic equality is so popular, and so difficult to defeat in a fair fight, that the shock doctrine was embraced in the first place.