Quotes about Doctrine

If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

I would not have believed the gospel had not the authority of the Church moved me.

He cannot have God for his father who has not the Church for his Mother.

All denominations of Christians have really little difference in point of doctrine, though they may differ widely in external forms.

M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.

If we idolize our theological system, we must demonize other theological systems.

I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?

A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.