Quotes about Dogmas

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.

Theology starts with dogmas, philosophy begins with problems. Philosophy sees the problem first, theology has the answer in advance

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH The unity of the church will consistnot in organizations,not in dogmas,not in liturgies,not in pious hearts,but in the word of God,in the voice of Jesus Christ.