Quotes about Doctrine

I maintain no doctrines of my own; what I preach are the doctrines of Christ, and for those I will forfeit my blood, and even think myself happy to suffer for the sake of my Redeemer.

Jerome was resolved to seal the doctrine with his blood; and he suffered death with the most distinguished magnanimity.

And yet, notwithstanding all these continual persecutions and horrible punishments, the Church daily increased, deeply rooted in the doctrine of the apostles and of men apostolical, and watered plentously with the blood of saints.

But it is a sad and fatal mistake to treat those other ways [atonement theories] as though they lay on the same plane with this one foundation way [penal substitutionary theory]; in reality the other "theories" of the atonement lose all their meaning unless they are taken in connection with this blessed "theory".

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.

The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.

We need theology in addition to Scripture because God has authorized teaching in the church, and because we need that teaching to mature in the faith.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

No doctrine of Redemption that in any way casts the slightest shadow over the high mountain of Divine Sovereignty can be tolerated for a moment.

There must be head faith before there can be heart faith. We must believe intellectually before we can believe savingly in the Lord Jesus.

If Scripture teaches the imputation of sin, we should not stumble when we find it affirming the imputation of righteousness.

False theology makes God's foreknowledge of our believing the cause of His election to salvation; whereas, God's election is the cause, and our believing in Christ is the effect .