Quotes About Doctrine

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

It is to be believed because it is absurd.

Mother Church.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Credere quia absurdum est

unhappy Catholics should just become Protestants.

The triumph of the doctrine of the sovereignty of sentiment over sense would have delighted the Romantics, no doubt, but it has promoted an unconscionable amount of misery.

Zweig viewed the Nazis as beneath contempt. Their doctrine and world outlook being so obviously ridiculous and morally odious, why waste time refuting them?

Sometimes the confused includes those who want to hang on to some tradition for their own sense of security and comfort. They may sincerely believe the tradition to be vitally important. They don't see that there is no intrinsic or doctrinal value in these items.

Resulta tragico. Las iglesias necesitan lideres que esten profundamente comprometidos con un sistema de creencias basico y esencial. El alineamiento teologico entre los lideres de la misma iglesia es importante. Este alineamiento no implica que el equipo de liderazgo tiene todas las respuestas o que esta de acuerdo en todos los pasajes o pensamientos acerca de Dios. Sin embargo, deberian estar en sincronia en las doctrinas teologicas principales.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account.

GLOSS. Secondly, the Evangelic doctrine has sublimity of strength; whence the Apostle says, The Gospel is the power of God to the salvation of all that believe. (Rom. 1:16.) The Prophet also shews this in the foregoing words, Lift up thy voice with might; which further marks out the manner of evangelic teaching, by that raising the voice which gives clearness to the doctrine.

So we must decide that anyone may entertain contrary opinions about the notions, if he does not mean to uphold anything at variance with faith. If, however, anyone should entertain a false opinion of the notions, knowing or thinking that consequences against the faith would follow, he would lapse into heresy.

Whether, besides Philosophy, any Further Doctrine Is Required? Objection 1: It seems that, besides philosophical science, we have no need of any further knowledge. For man should not seek to know what is above reason: "Seek not the things that are too high for thee" (Ecclus. 3:22). But whatever is not above reason is fully treated of in philosophical science. Therefore any other knowledge besides philosophical science is superfluous.