Quotes About Dogma

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

Truth is independent of all dogmas, ancient or modern.

G.K. Chesterton said (in a somewhat different context), "If you believe in nothing, you'll believe in anything." That

The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don't.

If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.

The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

We believed it was a Good vs Evil situation: that the WBC was right and everybody else was wrong, so there was no questioning. It was a very public war we were waging against the 'sinners.'

It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.

I don't ridicule religion, it ridicules itself.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do

Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

Heretic ... is a person who seizes upon a truth and pushes it to the point at which it becomes a falsehood.

Among a rising tide of millions of Christians, how we label ourselves isn't nearly as important as how we actually experience and demonstrate Yeshua's incredible power in and as us, beginning with the power to love our enemies. To us, this is what it means to know God and the One He sent. Words only reflect an intellectual dogma, but the expression of our lives shows our true dogma, which matters far more.

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

I don't believe in gods, only in religion.

You kill life and call it an act of religion. Then what is irreligion?

The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.

Spirituality is as bastardized as religion.