Quote by John Henry Newman

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

“The doctrine of Rome is the outcome of placing the highest unity of the church in the visible church rather than in the invisible…

— Ryan M. McGraw

“A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine”

— John Henry Newman

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Donald Fairbairn

“In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the church is my text; where that speaks, 'tis but my comment; where there is a joint…

— Thomas Browne

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

— Hans Kung

A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to no central…

— Albert Mohler

Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the…

— J. C. Ryle

“Until the blood from my pen runs dry, I shall worship the Greek body, the Greek mind, and the Greek soul. Until my tears…

— Pietros Maneos

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

— Tariq Ramadan