I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.