Quotes about Doctrine
Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation
- Karl Barth
Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.
- Karl Barth
The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
- John Tillotson
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
- St. Augustine
The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them
- Charles Spurgeon
Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
- GK Chesterton
The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
- Pope John Paul II
If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.
- Gregory of Nazianzus
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?
- Randy Alcorn
Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
- John Calvin