Quotes about Doctrine

Together with this outrage we may take the mutilation of the novel called The Search at the exact point where the author upholds, or appears for the moment to uphold, the doctrine that loyalty to the abstract truth must override all personal considerations;

But, looking round at the world as it is, it seems to me (I speak as a fool) that youth is all out for dogma, and that if boys and girls grow up imagining that Christianity has no dogma to give them, they'll give themselves over to political dogma or economic dogma in its crudest and most intransigent form.

the "fire of God" isn't connected primarily to perfect doctrine, but more to personal relationship with Jesus by simple childlike faith.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.

Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation

Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.