Book Quote by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“Our religion, with its beliefs, rituals, and dogmas becomes another segment among all the other segments that constitute our linear and fragmented existence. It…

— Stephen Batchelor

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

— Jean Cocteau

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren…

— Thomas Traherne

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

— Flannery O'Connor

It is only as we focus our thoughts on heaven that we will correctly interpret life on earth.

— Paul P. Enns

The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“Dogma is by definition nothing other than an interpretation of Scripture." The defined dogmas of our faith, then, encapsulate the Church's infallible interpretation of…

— Scott Hahn

“In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth. Man, a bit later, created the fable that "the dog, when he understands, always wants to…

— William Koehler

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

— Felix Adler

“[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 true meaning.…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the…

— John Henry Newman