Top Doctrine Quotes Collection

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Image of Randall Terry
If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.
- Randall Terry
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Paul Stewart
The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.
- Paul Stewart
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Austin Osman Spare
Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity
- Austin Osman Spare
Collection: Doctrine
Image of George Washington
It is impossible to govern the world without God. It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and humbly implore his protection and favor.
- George Washington
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Aiden Wilson Tozer
Any doctrine that makes the world your friend is not your friend.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Hugh Latimer
O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!
- Hugh Latimer
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Krista Tippett
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
- Krista Tippett
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Robert M. Price
For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and gapes, and the believer cannot rest till it be healed up, closed up, smeared with the soothing balm of an answer, even if his doctrine be a sophisticated one like Aquinas's or that of the latest Liberal Protestant theologian.
- Robert M. Price
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Frances Xavier Cabrini
The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.
- Frances Xavier Cabrini
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Pope Innocent III
Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it.
- Pope Innocent III
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Albert Mohler
When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.
- Albert Mohler
Collection: Doctrine
Image of John Knox
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.
- John Knox
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Wayne Grudem
Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.
- Wayne Grudem
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Angelina Grimke
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.
- Angelina Grimke
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Roderick T. Long
Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be entirely turned over to the voluntary, consensual forces of market society.
- Roderick T. Long
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Pope Agatho
We declare that no one is permitted to introduce, or to describe, or to compare, or to study, or otherwise to teach another faith. Whoever presumes to introduce or teach or pass on another creed . . . or whoever presumes to introduce a novel doctrine . . . We declare to be anathematized.
- Pope Agatho
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Robert Ferrar
... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.
- Robert Ferrar
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Charles Hartshorne
Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.
- Charles Hartshorne
Collection: Doctrine
Image of George Voinovich
I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is.
- George Voinovich
Collection: Doctrine
Image of William Howard Schuman
If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he will bring something of this approach not only to other fields of knowledge but to the conduct of his daily life.
- William Howard Schuman
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Galileo Galilei
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
- Galileo Galilei
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Dahlia Lithwick
Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.
- Dahlia Lithwick
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Roger E. Olson
Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The Great Tradition (orthodox doctrine) has a vote but not a veto.
- Roger E. Olson
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Georgius Agricola
Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of sulphur.
- Georgius Agricola
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Cheryl A. Esplin
Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of a lifetime and comes 'line upon line, precept upon precept.
- Cheryl A. Esplin
Collection: Doctrine
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The Word of truth teaches in the clearest and most positive terms that all of the dead will be raised. No doctrine of the faith rests upon a more literal and emphatic body of Scripture authority than this, nor is any more vital to Christianity.
- C. I. Scofield
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Bodhidharma
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.
- Bodhidharma
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Robert Henryson
The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch,Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill.Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch,And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill.
- Robert Henryson
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Anna Leonowens
The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.
- Anna Leonowens
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Frederick C. Beiser
When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of an object itself, he is very close to the rationalist doctrine. Hume was really a covert objectivist (or partial one) about aesthetic pleasure because that pleasure had to be based on the sensitivity to features in the object.
- Frederick C. Beiser
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Madame de Stael
New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
- Madame de Stael
Collection: Doctrine
Image of John Piper
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.
- John Piper
Collection: Doctrine
Image of George Whitefield
It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.
- George Whitefield
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Boyd K. Packer
Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an obedience that comes from a knowledge of the truth that transcends any external form of control. We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
- Boyd K. Packer
Collection: Doctrine
Image of William Shakespeare
I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Willard Van Orman Quine
How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.
- Willard Van Orman Quine
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Flannery O'Connor
Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.
- Flannery O'Connor
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Bertrand Russell
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence
- Bertrand Russell
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Timothy Keller
To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.
- Timothy Keller
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Blaise Pascal
According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it.
- Blaise Pascal
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Ludwig von Mises
The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.
- Ludwig von Mises
Collection: Doctrine
Image of William Wilberforce
I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.
- William Wilberforce
Collection: Doctrine
Image of J. C. Ryle
What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
- J. C. Ryle
Collection: Doctrine
Image of R. C. Sproul
To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
- R. C. Sproul
Collection: Doctrine
Image of Rob Bell
Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.
- Rob Bell
Collection: Doctrine
Image of D. A. Carson
The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.
- D. A. Carson
Collection: Doctrine
Image of J. C. Ryle
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
- J. C. Ryle
Collection: Doctrine
Image of J. I. Packer
Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.
- J. I. Packer
Collection: Doctrine