Quotes About Doctrine

Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

I saw what religion did to people when I grew up, and I certainly didn't want any part of it. That turned me off it.

The Obama Doctrine is the first presidential strategy in history that is exclusively about communicating - not implementing - policy. The Obama Doctrine seems to be 'tweet with overwhelming force.'

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.

Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else.

The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.

The doctrine of Reincarnation says that each individual soul is potentially perfect and is gradually unfolding its powers and making them actual through the process of Evolution.

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realising — not in believing, but in being and becoming.

Do not criticise others, for all doctrines and all dogmas are good; but show them by your lives that religion is no matter of books and beliefs, but of spiritual realisation.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

Conservatism as a formal political doctrine didn't exist in America in 1940. The word 'conservative' was associated primarily with fringe groups - anti-industrial Southern agrarians and the anti-New Deal tycoons who led the Liberty League.

Those who think religion is about "belief" don't understand religion, and don't understand belief.

On the deepest level Christianity has always been a fierce opponent of romantic love.

Wars were fought over the different interpretations of the same doctrine.

Before the Thunderhead, governments had constitutions and massive tomes of laws - yet even then, they were forever debated and challenged and manipulated. Wars were fought over the different interpretations of the same doctrine.

you will believe the one true doctrine of this wonderful fairy tale; which is, that your soul makes your body, just as a snail makes his shell.