DOCTRINE

Related Subjects: Belief, Creeds, Dogmatism, Heresy, Religion, Theology

1. Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.—H. W. BEECHER, Life Thoughts
   

2. Carried about with every wind of doctrine.—Bible, Ephesians 4:14
   

3. False doctrine, heresy, and schism.—Book of Common Prayer
   

4. And prove their doctrine orthodox,
   By apostolic blows and knocks.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
   

5. Doctrine is the necessary foundation of duty; if the theory is not correct, the practice cannot be right. Tell me what a man believes, and I will tell you what he will do.—TRYON EDWARDS
   

6. Pure doctrine always bears fruit in pure benefits.—EMERSON
   

7. The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.—A. W. & J. C. HARE, Guesses at Truth
   

8. Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.—ROBERT INGERSOLL, Intellectual Development
   

9. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength.—MILTON, Areopagitica

10. He who receives Light from above, from the Fountain of Light,
    No other doctrine needs, though granted true.—MILTON, Paradise Regained
    

11. Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.—W. G. T. SHEDD
    

12. Orthodoxy is my doxy­heterodoxy is another man's doxy.—WILLIAM WARBURTON

13. You may be as orthodox as the Devil, and as wicked.—JOHN WESLEY