Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Tho' I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted, and I…

— Benjamin Franklin

“the presbyterian way has ever appeared to me most agreeable to the word of God, and the reason and nature of things;”

— Jonathan Edwards

“That we manifest our approbation of the Westminster Assembly’s Catechism, as containing an excellent system of divinity; and we purpose to preach agreeably to…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.”

— Namsoon Kang

“Doctrines are statements designed to point us to God; they are not meant as objects of faith themselves.”

— Donald Fairbairn

“This peculiarity is essential to the perfection of the Presbyterian system, and makes it what, it strikes us, no other system of church-government is,…

— James Henley Thornwell

“Thus these politicians proceed, whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of…

— Edmund Burke

“And so I shall prefer to speak of the continuity or the movement of a sermon, rather than of its outline.”

— Eugene L. Lowry

“Then we realized that your Kind like to make laws. Like to decree what's what, and whether it's good or not. And the world,…

— Clive Barker

“A church was only as good or bad as the philosophy that emanated from the pulpit.”

— Erika Johansen

“Doctrines, though useful, are the product of analytical dissection; they recast the original, equivocal, historical material into abstract, less fully realized categories of meaning.…

— Andrew Davison

“...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything…

— Rosemary Haughton