Contradiction Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it.

— Pope Innocent III

Doctrine does matter.

— R. C. Sproul

It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the…

— John Stuart Mill

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

— Junius

The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“After an injunction had been judicially intimated to me by this Holy Office, to the effect that I must altogether abandon the false opinion…

— Galileo Galilei

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

— Diana Butler Bass

I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word…

— George MacDonald

There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they…

— Woodrow Wilson

“It holds almost universally in the history of the church, that until a doctrine has been fully discussed in a controversial way by men…

— William Cunningham

“Doctrine should come from the Bible and it should never be that we prove our doctrine from the Bible, but rather that the Bible…

— Patrick Davis

“Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. It holds a specific view of God, which is touted as…

— Timothy Keller