Quotes about Doctrine

In one sense the doctrine of the trinity is a mystery that we will never understand fully.

The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done.

Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple, who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

But to guide nations in the way of Truth By saving Doctrine, and from error lead To know, and knowing worship God aright, Is yet more knightly, this attracts the Soul, Governs the inner man, the nobler part, That other o'er the body only reigns, And oft by force, which to a generous mind so reigning can be no sincere delight.

He who receives Light from above, from the Fountain of Light, No other doctrine needs, though granted true; But these are false, or little else but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.

It is not to learn the form of the doctrine of godliness, but to get the power of it implanted in our souls.

Where the doctrine of truth is corrupted, the hearts of men will not be changed by it nor their lives reformed.

Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires.

Bitterest pills for modern man to swallow: the problem of divine sovereignty as it is expressed particularly in the doctrine of predestination.