Quotes about Dogma

The resulting inability or even desire to reason and think through an idea logically is demonstrated by one-liners such as "I'm not into 'isms.

Chinese proverb says, "If you want to know what water is, don't ask the fish." Most Hindus know little about Hinduism's scriptures or its development in dogma. Most Buddhists know little about Buddhism. Religion is much more a culture to most people than it is a carefully thought-through system of truth. Even Islam finds the same ignorance. Dare I say most Christians know very little about the teaching and history of their own beliefs.

Without the undergirding of love, the possessor of any conviction becomes obnoxious, and the dogma believed becomes repulsive to the one who disagrees with it.

Sometimes religion can be the greatest roadblock to true spirituality. The

every uncompromising ideology reduces faith to an idolatry

It is the dogma that is the drama -- not beautiful phrases, nor comforting sentiments, nor vague aspirations to loving-kindness and uplift, nor the promise of something nice after death -- but the terrifying assertion that the same God who made the world lived in the world and passed through the grave and gate of death. Show that to the heathen, and they may not believe it; but at least they may realize that here is something that a man might be glad to believe.

But, looking round at the world as it is, it seems to me (I speak as a fool) that youth is all out for dogma, and that if boys and girls grow up imagining that Christianity has no dogma to give them, they'll give themselves over to political dogma or economic dogma in its crudest and most intransigent form.

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.