I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of…

Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true…

— Norman Geisler

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the…

— Andrew Greeley

If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live…

— William Law

I certainly never believed, more or less, in the "essential doctrines" of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to sin and…

— Harriet Martineau

Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than…

— Anonymous

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

— Francis Bacon

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

— Flannery O'Connor

The early doctrines of the church, even doctrines like Trinity and Incarnation were originally also calls for action, calls for selflessness, calls for compassion,…

— Karen Armstrong

You can have all of your doctrines right—yet still not have the presence of God.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

— James E. Faust

Regular reading of and talking about the Book of Mormon invite the power to resist temptation and to produce feelings of love within our…

— David A. Bednar

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…

— Bodhidharma

Well-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules.

— Dallin H. Oaks

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to…

— Albert Pike

I believe that very much of current Arminianism is simply ignorance of gospel doctrine; and if people began to study their Bibles, and to…

— Charles Spurgeon