History Quote by William Cunningham

“The trouble has generally been . . . that people have emphasized either experience or doctrine at the expense of the other. . .…

— Michael L. Brown

“As a church, we need to be very careful about developing and expressing opinions on these topics.”

— Amy Fenton Lee

“The church needs to arise not just against total and absolute ignorance, the church also needs to arise against half-truth or falsehood, which is…

— Sunday Adelaja

“The greatest stumbling point of the church is in the department of doctrine. No one can agree on the same thing. There are thousands…

— Adam Houge

“Every church became a theatre, where orators, instead of church teachers, harangued, caring not to instruct the people, but striving to attract admiration, to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“...a man is not in any difficulty in making a reply according to his faith ... to those who try to defame our Holy…

— Saint Augustine of Hippo

The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the Church or…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

“the church has unhesitatingly privileged the creed and let the canon fend for itself—”

— N.T. Wright

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound…

— Teresa of Avila

“It sounds as if you supposed that argument was the way to keep him out of the Enemy's clutches. That might have been so…

— C.S. Lewis

The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all times, it…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“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