Bones Quote by Adoniram Judson Gordon

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

— Khalil Gibran

“Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Doctrine matters. What you believe about God, the gospel, the nature of man, and every major truth addressed in Scripture filters down to every…

— John Macarthur

Doctrine does matter.

— R. C. Sproul

Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

— Wayne Grudem

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it…

— Martin Luther

A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is…

— George F. Kennan

Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

— Diana Butler Bass

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

— George MacDonald

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

— Rob Bell

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

— Timothy Keller