Quotes about Doctrine

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

The Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when . . . he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be held by the universal church is, by the divine assistance promised to him in Blessed Peter, possessed of that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer [Jesus] wills that His church should be endowed.

Give me that old-time religion,It's good enough for me.

He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

Carried about with every wind of doctrine.

That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought—the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.

It may be said, "Surely these passages cannot be taken literally, for how then would the people of God be able to survive in the world?" The state of mind of John 7:17 will cause such objections to vanish: If anyone desires to do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God or whether I speak of myself. I believe that whoever is willing to act out these commandments of the Lord literally, will be led with me to see that taking them literally is the will of God.

the Catholic Church possesses one and the same faith throughout the whole world.

If you believe in the Gospel what you like, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.