Quotes about Doctrine
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.
- Rob Bell
Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.
- JI Packer
A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in which neither anything whatever can be added by anyone nor anything taken away; for, unless faith be one, it is not the faith.
- Pope Leo I
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
- Timothy Keller
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
- John Stott
Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.
- John Calvin
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.
- Thomas Jefferson
You don't obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience.
- Bob Sorge
Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
- John Calvin
If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.
- Charles Spurgeon
...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.
- William Barclay
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mahatma Gandhi