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Doctrine: Quotations from Burning Words

Religion, as embodied in the character and conduct of its disciples, cannot survive without doctrinal purity. In the absence of this element, religious feeling inevitably decays; while even religious necessity becomes a thing of naught.— J. McC. HOLMES

The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful, but whether it is true.— GUESSES AT TRUTH

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.— A. J. GORDON

Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.— PRIOR

Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine."— H. W. BEECHER

Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.— A. H. BOYD

We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest conviction. But we are called on to trust, - to trust ourselves to God, being sure that He will lead us right, - to keep close to Him, and to trust the promises which He whispers through our conscience; this we can do, and we ought to do.— J. C. SHAIRP