If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few… — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
“Humans are capable of having transcendent, transformative experiences in the absence of any given dogma. We are capable of sustaining elaborate systems… — John W. Loftus Copy Share Image
“Religion lives not in dogma, but utterly within the virtues of love and self-sacrifice. Without those, there is no future I can… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Islam is a close union of the spiritual and the temporal; it is the reign of a dogma, it is the heaviest… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The difficulty, then, is when you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
The religious training inspired in me a desire for learning. In fact, I am immensely grateful for my Catholic education for instilling… — Leonard Lawlor Copy Share Image
“We have this kind of shibboleth which says: what wasn’t reasoned into existence can’t be reasoned out. The truth I think is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“We all know dogmatists who are more concerned about holding their opinions than about investigating their truth. ... if they are mistaken,… — David L. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words,… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“If theology means knowledge of God, every woman, serious about her faith, young or old, must be a theologian, must move beyond… — Rosalie De Rosset Copy Share Image
“The dogma of Transub-stantiation implies that the entire substance of the bread and the entire substance of the wine are converted, respectively,… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Then another thing, now this is mainly for our interest about Tibet, our struggle. Whole struggle depend on within person. For dangerous.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The attack against dogmas as such, therefore, strongly resembles the struggle against the general legal foundations of a state, and , as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I have a very difficult time believing that there is some being who is going to invite me into heaven or not… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
There is more evidence to support the possibility that there could be a crack smoking Velociraptor in a pink tutu playing the… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
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