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When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.

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

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.

A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.