Quotes about Doctrine

For Christianity is not merely a doctrine or a system of beliefs, it is Christ living in us and uniting men to one another in His own Life and unity. "I in them, and Thou, Father, in Me, that they may be made perfect in One…. And the glory which Thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be One as we also are One.

It is not a matter of opinion, yours or mine. It is what God says that matters. The

Every single Biblical doctrine of theology, directly or indirectly, ultimately has its basis in the book of Genesis.

There are in the Pauline teaching four important structural lines and in connection with these it will prove easiest and most convincing to test our thesis. These consist of the idea of the resurrection, the thought of salvation, the doctrine of the judgment and justification, the conception of the Spirit.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed.

Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty. The

The theory-practice dichotomy that still bedevils many a theological curriculum serves neither seminary nor church. There is a debilitating dichotomy between what Christians believe (doctrine) and how they live their lives (discipleship).

Doctrine forms disciples when it helps the church to act out its new life in Christ.

Chrysostom at length expressed the need for the overseer of God's people to preach true doctrine and refute false teaching:

Christian doctrine grows disciples by teaching them to perceive, name, and act in ways that demonstrate the reality of the gospel, speaking and showing what is "in Christ.

Christian doctrine is what the church believes, teaches, and confesses as it prays and suffers, serves and obeys, celebrates and awaits the coming of the kingdom of God. —Jaroslav Pelikan