Quotes About Sound Doctrine

#1. These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.

John Stott

#2. the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear" (2 Timothy 4:3).

Vincent Cheung

#3. Sound doctrine does not enter into a hard and disobedient heart.

Justin Martyr

#4. I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

John Shelton Reed

#5. The sad fact is that biblical truth has never been the hallmark of the Charismatic Movement, where spiritual experience is continually elevated above sound doctrine.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#6. Now, in order that true religion may shine upon us, we ought to hold that it must take its beginning from heavenly doctrine and that no one can get even the slightest taste of right and sound doctrine unless he be a pupil of Scripture.

John Calvin

#7. Whether in church, at home, or in the margins of life, nothing is more important to our families than the teaching and application of sound doctrine.

Anonymous

#8. Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Girolamo Savonarola

#9. If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.

Arno C. Gaebelein

#10. True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship. (Desiring God, 81-82)

John Piper

#11. 2Ti4.3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 2Ti4.4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Anonymous

#12. True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.

Charles Hodge

#13. The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

Matthew Carter

#14. Paul said in the second epistle ... the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine ... they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.

Jan Karon

#15. Sound doctrine is sound politics.

Morton Blackwell

#16. If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.

John Calvin

#17. Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.

Francis Schaeffer

#18. I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.

James McAvoy

#19. As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

Arlen Specter

#20. My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times.

Misty Upham

#21. And when Elmer was about to slip out to the kitchen with her to make lemonade, Benham held him by demanding, 'What do you think of John Wesley's doctrine of perfection?'
'Oh, it's absolutely sound and proven,' admitted Elmer, wondering what the devil Mr. Wesley's doctrine of perfection might be.

Sinclair Lewis

#22. Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.

M.R. James

#23. She knew it was hopeless when he smelled better than the bacon.

Amanda Usen

#24. This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

Cormac McCarthy

#25. No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's a given. The real issue is, do we have a sound theology.? Do we embrace true or false doctrine?

R.C. Sproul

#26. He let out a short laugh. You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe?

James Dashner

#27. By learning to sew, you give your clothes several more good years of wear and tear.

Grace Collins

#28. The goal is to avoid the hit of desire. But when I can't, when it sneaks up and grabs hold of me? Then the only thing to do is indulge it. And I'd be lying if I said I don't enjoy those times.

Alessandra Torre

#29. There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.

Peter Thiel

#30. I'm old, sick, tired, disillusioned, harassed, slandered, and unappreciated.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#31. Christians - who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism - often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for "new" theologies, "new" ways of worship, and "new" music, being quite willing to toss out their entire "old-fashioned" Christian heritage.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#32. Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them.

Hannah More

#33. Life is about looking beneath the surface and seeing what lies beyond appearances. That

Connor Franta

#34. Do transvestites have to dress up for Halloween or do they pretty much qualify from the get-go?

Dana Gould

#35. God requires our obedience.

Sunday Adelaja

#36. My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

Carlos Castaneda

#37. Why are all the truly orthodox Christians
the doctrinally minded, theologically sound ones
complete jerks? Why are nice, loving Christians typically wishy-washier than Charlie Brown?

Alexis Neal

#38. With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"
To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,
And then to come out empty
it is a tragic error. (116)
trans by Robert Thurman

Huston Smith