Quotes about Doctrine
A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God's sovereignty and man's responsibility. "Young woman," said he. "You don't reconcile friends".
- Elisabeth Elliot
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
- JI Packer
Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
- Phillips Brooks
One person's religion is another person's cult.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.
- Rob Bell
I can't find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to identity ourselves first and foremost as sinners.
- Rob Bell
Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.
- Rob Bell
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
- Martin Luther
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
- Jonathan Edwards
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
- Mark Twain
We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.
- CS Lewis
Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.
- John Calvin