Dogma Quotes · Page 9

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

— Dwight L. Moody

It's only a dogma that hells exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it.

— Antonia White

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

— Mary Baker Eddy

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

— Jean-Marie Lehn

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

— Bill Bixby

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

— Jerry A. Coyne

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas,…

— Rajneesh

“Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.”

— Christopher Hitchens

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

— Alex Grey

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the…

— Muhammad Iqbal

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

— Umberto Eco

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of…

— John Stuart Mill

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

— Christy Turlington

Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you’re entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people’s opinions drown out your…

— Tim Waterstone

“The claim that there is no alternative but perdition to a worldview that shows how everything fits together and makes perfect sense…

— Susan Neiman

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the…

— Gabrielle Roth

“The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense…

— Sam Harris

I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to…

— Frederick Buechner

It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they…

— Ed Buckner

Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built…

— C. JoyBell C

“Most reject the more repugnant or indefensible dogmas while still holding onto some core belief. Many believers will proudly describe themselves as…

— Aron Ra

Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a…

— Anonymous

What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant…

— Anthony Storr

America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious…

— Dennis Miller

“[I]n the history of dogma [w]orld-old usages, laws and institutions continue to drag out their existence long after they have lost their…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

There are three musts that hold us back: "I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be…

— Albert Ellis

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad.…

— Stella Payton

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

— Tommy Douglas

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

— Will Durant

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements…

— Abraham Lincoln

The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.

— Thomas Huxley

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

— Neale Donald Walsch

I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well.

— Rob Brezsny

“So the church comes up with all manner of dogma and stupidity to explain things that cannot be explained.”

— Adriana Koulias

In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the…

— Stephen Kinzer

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one…

— B. R. Ambedkar