Quotes about Dogma

Sometimes religion can be the greatest roadblock to true spirituality. The

every uncompromising ideology reduces faith to an idolatry

It is the dogma that is the drama -- not beautiful phrases, nor comforting sentiments, nor vague aspirations to loving-kindness and uplift, nor the promise of something nice after death -- but the terrifying assertion that the same God who made the world lived in the world and passed through the grave and gate of death. Show that to the heathen, and they may not believe it; but at least they may realize that here is something that a man might be glad to believe.

But, looking round at the world as it is, it seems to me (I speak as a fool) that youth is all out for dogma, and that if boys and girls grow up imagining that Christianity has no dogma to give them, they'll give themselves over to political dogma or economic dogma in its crudest and most intransigent form.

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

Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.