Religion Quote by Paul Wilkes

“Monasticism resonated with me, with my imperfect, impulsive self, because it encompasses all human activity and asks that the disparate parts and moments of…

— Paul Wilkes

“Monasticism is really based on the idea that if you leave people, you leave the spirit of the world. But you do not. You…

— David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“One of the great dangers faced by monastic practitioners is that, after a few months or a few years or a few decades, we…

— Michael Casey

“Do not criticise others, for all doctrines and all dogmas are good; but show them by your lives that religion is no matter of…

— Swami Vivekananda

“the monastery is not a place to hide from problems; it is a place to face them, whether they are personal sin, human brokenness,…

— Carrie Gress

“Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the self-renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it.”

— Nathan Lopes Cardozo

“From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs…

— Victor Hugo

“The essence of a religious approach to the world, it seems to me, is to be found, not in the imposition of theological dogma,…

— Anonymous

Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.

— Peace Pilgrim

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

— Flannery O'Connor

“Today, serving neither religion nor political faith, philosophy is a subject without a subjuct matter, scolasticism without the charm of dogma.”

— John Gray