Quotes about Doctrine
One person's religion is another person's cult.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.
— Rob Bell
I can't find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to identity ourselves first and foremost as sinners.
— Rob Bell
Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.
— Rob Bell
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
— Martin Luther
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
— Jonathan Edwards
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
— Mark Twain
We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.
— CS Lewis
Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.
— John Calvin
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.
— Ayn Rand
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
— Oscar Wilde
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
— Oscar Wilde