Quotes about Dogma

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves.

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true.