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Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
Thus the sum and substance of all doctrine is this, that we are not justified by any works, but that faith in Christ saves.
If a man has only correct doctrine to offer me, I am sure to slip out at the first intermission to seek the company of someone who has seen for himself how lovely is the face of Him who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Such a man can help me, and no one else can.
Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it.
We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild.
Doctrines are statements designed to point us to God; they are not meant as objects of faith themselves.
If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.
The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.
Possessing a correct interpretation of each individual doctrine is not sufficient; we must also learn to hold each doctrine in harmony with the others.
I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.
When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.
What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.
The noble-minded are all-encompassing, not stuck in doctrines. Little people are stuck in doctrines.
The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.
The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation
I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.
The Holy Spirit will teach you, how to distinguish between right and wrong doctrines
Truth in the heart of heresy
The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.
Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.
Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.
Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.
Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.
The most important doctrine I can declare, and the most powerful testimony I can bear, is of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. His atonement is the most transcendent event that ever has or ever will occur from Creation's dawn through all the ages of a never-ending eternity.
The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.
Inability to distinguish doctrine is spreading far and wide, and so long as the preacher is "clever" and "earnest," hundreds seem to think it must be all right, and call you dreadfully "narrow and uncharitable" if you hint that he is unsound!
May we be thunder in our doctrine and lighten in out conversations.
Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?
Theology is an assault on the sin-distorted intellect; it is the obedience penetrating the realm of thought.
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.
People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine.
It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconscious convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.
The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God Are Sealed Are Sealed Into Your Moral Awareness
Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.
Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings ... that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
Mr. de Lamartine once wrote to me thusly: "Your doctrine is only the half of my program. You have stopped at liberty; I go on to fraternity." I answered him: "The second half of your program will destroy the first.
Our faith in doctrine is not established until we have a perfect conviction that God is its author.
If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.
There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.
The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.
Our main doctrines, which include all the rest, are three: That of repentance, of faith, and of holiness. The first of these we account, as it were, the porch of religion; the next, the door; the third, religion itself.
The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject ...
When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.
Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come to theology classes somewhat reluctantly, assuming that doctrine is neither practical nor relevant to their future ministry.
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
the Aleph-Null campaign.
Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage.
Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.
Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.
A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws
these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way.
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.
Doctrine severed from practice is dead; practice severed from doctrine is just another form of self-salvation and self-improvement. A disciple of Christ is a student of theology.
In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
Now, in order that true religion may shine upon us, we ought to hold that it must take its beginning from heavenly doctrine and that no one can get even the slightest taste of right and sound doctrine unless he be a pupil of Scripture.
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Neither can such a doctrine argue: it simply does not understand that other doctrines exist, can exist, it simply does not know how to imagine an opinion contrary to its own
Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result ...
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.
If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.
Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not know of the doctrine.
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.
The gospel sweetens the law.
It were well for many professors if instead of following their own devices, and cutting out new paths of thought for themselves, they would enquire for the good old ways of God's own truth, and beseech the Holy Ghost to give them sanctified understandings and teachable spirits.
Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics,
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So where should we trace our doctrine? To the New Testament, and only there. And even this statement must be qualified. We should trace our doctrine to that which the New Testament lays down as a teaching or practice
It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.
At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished alumni of life's school of affliction, graduating with honors.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!
Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!
what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.
O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!
To dream in doctrines, how tidy!
Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.
The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch,Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill.Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch,And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill.
Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good sound Christian.
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more congenial with the depraved tastes of fallen nature; instead, however, of improving the gospel carnal wisdom pollutes it, until it becomes another gospel, and not the truth of God at all.
Questions about God's existence, self disclosure, saving action and almighty power reminded me of my inadequacies. For me the theo in theology had become little more than a question mark. I could confidently discuss philosophy, psychology and social change, but God made me uneasy.
Orthodoxy builds a rococo logical palace on loose empirical sand.
So it is not simply by understanding doctrine that we uproot narcissism and materialism. It is by actually taking our place in a local expression of that concrete economy of grace instituted by God in Christ and sustained by his Word and Spirit.
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.
To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.
For devotees of doctrine tended to fall in love with their own righteousness, ignoring inconvenient facts.
Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.
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the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment ...
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.