--- Title: Doctrine Author: Chris Krycho Date: 2014-11-04 23:02 Template: formats/quotation Category: Theology Tags: [quotes] Source: John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, III:6.4. ... > Doctrine is not merely an affair of the tongue, but of the life; is not > apprehended by the intellect and memory merely, like other branches of > learning; but is received only when it possesses the whole soul, and finds its > seat and habitation in the inmost recesses of the heart.... To doctrine in > which our religion is contained we have given the first place, since by it our > salvation commences; but it must be transfused into the breast, and pass into > the conduct, and so transform us into itself, as not to prove unfruitful.