Quotes about Doctrine

The English term "martyr" comes from the Greek martys, "witness." Søren Kierkegaard defines witness as "someone who directly demonstrates the truth of the doctrine he proclaims—directly, yes, partly by its being the truth within him, … partly by his volunteering his personal self and saying: See, now, if you can force me to deny this doctrine.

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

To be of no Church is dangerous.

The Church is perishing today through the lack of thinking, not through an excess of it.

The narration of the facts is history; the narration of the facts with the meaning of the facts is doctrine. Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried--that is history. He loved me and gave Himself for me--that is doctrine. Such was the Christianity of the primitive Church.

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

There can be no more laying of foundations, any more than there can be other incarnations or crucifixions of Christ or rebaptism.

Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.