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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
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Doctrine without its correspondent principle remains barren, if not lifeless, of which the Greek Church seems an instance; or
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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.
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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.
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You know that doctrine matters, but it's difficult to know how much time to devote to it among the demands of everyday life.
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Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
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What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.
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Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.
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We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
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Well-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules.
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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.
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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.
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Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation
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Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.
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Whether in church, at home, or in the margins of life, nothing is more important to our families than the teaching and application of sound doctrine.
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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
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If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable.
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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.
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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.
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It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptance
betokens a lack of intellectual rigor, an absence of skepticism, a need to replace experiments by desires.
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Orthodoxy builds a rococo logical palace on loose empirical sand.
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Doctrine is well enough for the wise, Jean; but the miracle is something we can hold in our hands and love.
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Our discernment of Christian doctrines must include a basic knowledge of the history of the church.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.
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Second, how much you should study doctrine depends on your personal history. Study
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Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.
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Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
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Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.
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It might be added that the concept 'doctrines of men' [WCF 1.10] now arguably includes behaviourism, pragmatism, dynamic equivalence, and modern textual criticism.
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Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.
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Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.
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Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
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The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.
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People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine.
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The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
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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.
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If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject ...
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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.
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Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics,
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There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.
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Doctrine does matter. But one must ever be reminded that to be right on doctrine does not mean one is right with the Lord.
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Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.
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Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
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The gospel of the kingdom talks about principles of the kingdom.
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Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.
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Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of a lifetime and comes 'line upon line, precept upon precept.
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Faith, doubt, humility, and confidence - this is the stuff and substance of theology at its best. Swagger, smugness, and certainty - this is the stuff and substance of ideology at its worst.
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The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down to earth, remolding them into practical forms, imbuing them with vitality, and then making use of them, has been a long one.
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Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.
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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?
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Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it.
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Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.
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We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.
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Nevertheless, in order to produce more equality and uniformity in the defence of any doctrine, its fundamental principles must be committed to writing. May these two volumes therefore serve as the building stones which I contribute to the joint work.
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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.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
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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.
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Sound doctrine is sound politics.
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The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by persuading the understanding through reasons, and by gently attracting or exhorting the will.
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Many today view love and doctrine as enemies, or at best as rivals.
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If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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truth, justice, temperance, and
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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Truth in the heart of heresy
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The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
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The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
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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.
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There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.
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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.
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External actions are evidence of internal beliefs. Our deeds are what show our creeds.
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That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.
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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
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These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind.
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Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
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Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines.
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Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.
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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.
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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.
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To understand kingdom principles is to teach kingdom principles
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The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.
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Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.
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The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.
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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.
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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.
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Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical or rational basis, but because they are found in practice to give the faithful a sense of sacred transcendence.
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Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
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It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.
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When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.
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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.
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Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
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The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.
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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.