Quotes about Doctrine

What's up is faith what's down is heresy.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence.

Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

Too often Christians today have only two gears on their theological bike: essential and unimportant.

Too often Christians today have only two gears on their theological bike: essential and unimportant. If something is not essential for salvation, it is treated as unimportant and therefore dismissable. But the Bible presents us with a number of matters that are not essential for salvation but which nonetheless are important, even necessary, for obedience to God's Word.

A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows.

I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

If you consider this subject unnecessary for Christians, then please quit the field; you and I have nothing in common, for I consider it vital.

It is a doctrine of satan that men are no longer terrified by the law and have replaced it with a gospel of love and grace ONLY!

It is a doctrine of satan that men are no longer terrified by the law and have replaced it with a gospel of love and grace ONLY!