31 quotes found
“I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that...”
“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.”
“Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.")”
“The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is har...”
“This doctrine of total inability which declares that men are dead in sin does not mean that all men are equally bad, nor that any man is as bad as he could be, nor that anyone is entirely destitute...”
“We believe that religions are basically the samethey only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.”
“One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.”
“It's not that we start with beliefs and doctrine and then come up with worship practices that properly "express" these (cognitive) beliefs; rather, we begin with worship, and articulated beliefs bu...”
“I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rath...”
“First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to show, deceived ...”
“Christianswho have no patience with Darwinistic materialismoften sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for new theologies, new ways of worship, and new music, being quite ...”
“When doctrinal integrity (a term usually defined by those using it) trumps kindness and grace, faith has wandered out of bounds. Anything claiming to be truth that does not lead to compassion for o...”
“The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reforma...”
“Think about how much of your Bible, Old and New Testaments, is in the form not of doctrinal statements but of stories. Statements declare doctrinal truth; stories illustrate doctrinal truth. Doctri...”
“Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.”
“Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.”
“Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.”
“How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion when I cannot make two timepieces agree!”
“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.”
“You can and you can't You will and you won't You'll be damn'd if you do You'll be damn'd if you don't.”
