Clear Quote by Samuel Johnson

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or…

— Sigmund Freud

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

— Bodhidharma

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were…

— Madame de Stael

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

— William Gurnall

“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

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

— Donald Fairbairn

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

— Amin Maalouf

You will realize that doctrines are inventions of the human mind, as it tried to penetrate the mystery of God. You will realize that…

— Pelagius

A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear…

— David Brewster

Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good sound Christian.

— N. T. Wright

I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word of God.…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Our main doctrines, which include all the rest, are three: That of repentance, of faith, and of holiness. The first of these we account,…

— John Wesley