Quotes about Doctrine
A lot of Christians are doing that for God today. Often unwilling to accept the fact that God is working because they don't understand how He is working, they have chosen to substitute the doctrine of chance for the doctrine of divine providence.
— Jerry Bridges
It is much easier to trust in the sovereignty of God when it is the other person who is hurting. We need to be like Jesus, of whom it was said, "A bruised reed he will not break" (Matthew 12:20). Let us not be guilty of breaking a bruised reed (a heavy heart) by insensitive treatment of the heavy doctrine of the sovereignty of God.
— Jerry Bridges
Heresy is the foe of countenance
— Ernest Hemingway
Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both... It's easy to create an all-truth church model. It may be even easier to create an all-grace model, but Jesus didn't leave either option on the table.
— Andy Stanley
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
— St. Augustine
I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.
— Jonathan Krohn
The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.
— Clayton M. Christensen
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
— John Polkinghorne
The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.
— Ellen White
The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.
— Robert Ingersoll
Is Christ being offensive when he says that he is the only way to God? Judging by the number of people who are offended, you'd better believe it! Is Christ being exclusive? That's a different question.
— Lee Strobel