Advancement Quote by Pope Pius IX

“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

The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does not diminish…

— St. Vincent

“[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

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

— Flannery O'Connor

“Moreover, our certitudes were closely bound to a given set of symbols. Change the well defined Latin term for an undefined Greek one and…

— Bryan Houghton

Brothers and sisters, this is a divine work in process, with the manifestations and blessings of it abounding in every direction, so please don’t…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“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

It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those…

— Karl Kraus

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

— George Santayana

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.

— H. P. Blavatsky

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford…

— William Robertson Smith

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling,…

— Thomas Jefferson