Doctrine Quotes
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You might prove doctrine from the Bible till doomsday, and it would merely convince a people, but would not convert them. You might read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations, and prove every iota that you advance, and that alone would have no converting influence upon the people. Nothing short of a testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost would bring light and knowledge to them -- bring them in their hearts to repentance. Nothing short of that would ever do.
Brigham Young -
We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist 'has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.' This is a most damnable doctrine. People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither conscience nor honor. Force, trickery, lies, broken promises are wholly justified.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
John Calvin -
There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.
Camille Flammarion -
The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body to undergo an experience in mortality.
Heber J. Grant -
Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.
Wayne Grudem -
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
Tertullian -
The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.
Emil Brunner