Quotes about Dogma

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Every profession has its traditions and its traditionalists. But the traditionalists in the pulpit are much more certain than the others that the Lord is on their side.

it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

With this access point, God becomes more a verb than a noun, more a process than a conclusion, more an experience than a dogma, more a personal relationship than an idea. There is Someone dancing with you and you no longer need to prove to anyone that you are right, nor are you afraid of making mistakes. Another word for that is faith.

Christianity, for some, is neither faith nor reason—just reactive tribalism hiding behind the skirts of Mother Church.

Once people stop believing in the God of the Bible, they don't believe in nothing--they begin to believe in anything.

Some things that religious people make a big deal of are rather pointless. Avoid the insanity.

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

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

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.