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  • Therefore the first Creed was established, summing up the central Christian "dogmas" or tenets.†   (source)
  • He'd never cared much about the religious dogma he'd been taught as a child, and he didn't believe in most of it now.†   (source)
  • All this is basic dogma, so to speak.†   (source)
  • This was National Party dogma.†   (source)
  • They have even been known to ignore proven facts that contradict their dogma.†   (source)
  • He went to Mass every Sunday, he confessed his sins, he believed the dogma.†   (source)
  • Being an Anabaptist minister in the American Army was difficult enough under the best of circumstances; without dogma, it was almost intolerable.†   (source)
  • As with any dogma, however, there are bound to be heretics.†   (source)
  • The Circle s dogma was largely based on this book.†   (source)
  • We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil.†   (source)
  • Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.†   (source)
  • I'm sure it would reveal a crooked nubibus pathway indicative of lifelong reliance on dogma and aversion to change.†   (source)
  • Aim for truth without accusation, patriotism without political cant, and faith beyond religious dogma.†   (source)
  • One of the nastiest abettors of the hateful dogma purveyed below the Mason-Dixon line, he seemed to me also—while I brooded over the haggard figure in a baggy white Palm Beach suit, ravaged like one already seized by death's hand even as he slouched past a frayed palmtree into the New Orleans clinic—one of its chief and most wretched victims, and the faintest breath of regret accompanied my murmured farewell.†   (source)
  • BRADY Has Mr. Cates ever tried to pollute your mind with his heathen dogma?†   (source)
  • Minor differences of opinion might arise, but generally Piedmont's educational dogma was law before he had even opened his mouth.†   (source)
  • She had not asked to be instructed but he instructed anyway, forcing a little definition of one of the sacraments or of some dogma into each conversation he had, no matter with whom.†   (source)
  • All of them, without exception, clung to some dogma or other, satisfied with words and superficialities, but Father Nikolai had gone through Tolstoyism and revolutionary idealism and was still moving forward.†   (source)
  • His action was characteristic of the man who was labeled a reactionary, who was proud to be a conservative and who authored these lasting definitions of liberalism and liberty: Liberalism implies particularly freedom of thought, freedom from orthodox dogma, the right of others to think differently from one's self.†   (source)
  • As for the dogma, she could not understand it and did not even try.   (source)
    dogma = code of beliefs
  • It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.†   (source)
  • He believed that Christianity and Judaism were only kept alive by rigid dogma and outer ritual.†   (source)
  • But it was through an unlikely class that I became convinced beyond dogma of a powerful truth.†   (source)
  • It's dogma-free, which allows the music to take more than its share of detours.†   (source)
  • I CHOOSE FOR MY SUBJECT, faith wrought into life apart from creed or dogma.†   (source)
  • At first he'd improvised, but now they're demanding dogma: he would deviate from orthodoxy at his peril.†   (source)
  • Time was mentioned in Shrike Church dogma, but only in the sense that the Shrike was supposed to be "…the Angel of Retribution from Beyond Time" and that true time had ended for the human race when Old Earth died and that the four centuries since had been "false time."†   (source)
  • There are eras of human history in which the channels of thought have been too deeply cut and no change was possible, and nothing new ever happened, and "best" was a matter of dogma, but that is not the situation now.†   (source)
  • But by 'christianizing' these two great Greek philosophers, we only mean that they were interpreted and explained in such a way that they were no longer considered a threat to Christian dogma.†   (source)
  • Cedric lets on that things aren't going so well, and Torrence is at the ready with sweeping explanations from Islamic dogma for Cedric's unhappiness.†   (source)
  • Many recognized that if the abolitionists were permitted to spread their emotionally volatile dogma and rage, it would only be a matter of time before the country degenerated into some sort of civil war.†   (source)
  • Cedric, unaware of Catholic dogma, shrugs, though he's happy to feel the conversation land on the terra firma of religion.†   (source)
  • We must not enslave ourselves to dogma.†   (source)
  • It has always seemed to me that every conception is immaculate and that this dogma, concerning the Mother of God, expresses the idea of all motherhood.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, Christianity had also become set in its own rigid dogmas and outer rituals.†   (source)
  • When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.†   (source)
  • In general, Luther distanced himself from many of the religious customs and dogmas that had become rooted in ecclesiastical history during the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • According to the Enlightenment philosophers, what religion needed was to be stripped of all the irrational dogmas or doctrines that had got attached to the simple teachings of Jesus during the course of ecclesiastical history.†   (source)
  • At parties they start to ask leading questions that have the ring of inquisition; they are interested in my positions, my dogmas.†   (source)
  • He lost, for that moment, all the days and dogmas of his past; his concepts, his problems, his pain were wiped out; he knew only-as from a great, clear distance-that man exists for the achievement of his desires, and he wondered why he stood here, he wondered who had the right to demand that he waste a single irreplaceable hour of his life, when his only desire was to seize the slender figure in gray and hold her through the length of whatever time there was left for him to exist.†   (source)
  • And to myself I can say that, because progress is unalterable, many of today's dogmas will have vanished by the time they grow into adults.†   (source)
  • But I do believe--and with every fiber in me--that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past to discover the truth of today, and perhaps find the greatness of tomorrow.†   (source)
  • I suppose Bors passed for his dogma, and Percivale for his innocence.†   (source)
  • I don't know what the dogma is, but I know it nearly turned my brother's hair grey.†   (source)
  • The hearts of these two lovers were instinctively too generous to fit with dogma.†   (source)
  • Where this dogma is not transcended the myth of Going to the Father is taken literally, as describing man's final goal.†   (source)
  • He considered Guy Francon an impractical idealist; he was not restrained by an Classic dogma; he was much more skillful and liberal: he built anything.†   (source)
  • And, so far as this Quest for the Holy Grail is concerned, he seems to have been doing a sort of advanced course in Catholic dogma.†   (source)
  • …her own husband was preaching, even on Sunday, and they would look at him and wonder if he even knew that she was not there, if he had not even forgot that he ever had a wife, up there in the pulpit with his hands flying around him and the dogma he was supposed to preach all full of galloping cavalry and defeat and glory just as when he tried to tell them on the street about the galloping horses, it in turn would get all mixed up with absolution and choirs of martial seraphim, until…†   (source)
  • …of this pair of opposites is not encouraged (indeed. is rejected as "pantheism" and has sometimes been rewarded with the stake); nevertheless, the prayers and diaries of the Christian mystics abound in ecstatic descriptions of the unitive, soul-shattering experience (see above, p. 31), while Dante's vision at the conclusion of the Divine Comedy (see above, p. 164) certainly goes beyond the orthodox, dualistic, son, retistic dogma of the finality of the personalities of the Trinity.†   (source)
  • Guy Francon, its designer, has known how to subordinate himself to the mandatory canons which generations of craftsmen behind him have proved inviolate, and at the same time how to display his own creative originality, not in spite of, but precisely because of the Classical dogma he has accepted with the humility of a true artist.†   (source)
  • He has preached me as a dogma; to-night he will announce me as a revelation.†   (source)
  • Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma.†   (source)
  • What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery?†   (source)
  • The hatred of instruction for the children of the people was a dogma.†   (source)
  • There is nothing like dogma for bringing forth dreams.†   (source)
  • This fanaticism was neither a dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras.†   (source)
  • Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to guide civilization.†   (source)
  • Science will find itself philosophically constrained once again to grant earth all the honors that Church dogma wished to preserve for it.†   (source)
  • Then he resumed: "There they were at it, all the cardinals and bishops and archbishops from all the ends of the earth and these two fighting dog and devil until at last the Pope himself stood up and declared infallibility a dogma of the Church ex cathedra.†   (source)
  • He was as unfit, obviously, by nature, as he had been by social position, to fill the part of a propounder of accredited dogma.†   (source)
  • Now, as always, Clare's father was sanguine as a child; and though the younger could not accept his parent's narrow dogma, he revered his practice and recognized the hero under the pietist.†   (source)
  • I don't care a bit for dogma.†   (source)
  • At the Griffiths' all was so solemn and reserved, the still moods of those who feel the pressure of dogma and conviction.†   (source)
  • He has filled the old skins of dogma with the new wine of love, and shown men what it is to believe, live and be free.†   (source)
  • 'The Church don't recognize divorce in her dogma, strictly speaking,' he says: 'and bear in mind the words of the service in your goings out and your comings in: What God hath joined together let no man put asunder.'†   (source)
  • Indeed, with just a modicum of logic, one could achieve very amusing results from the dogma or infinite space and time— to wit: nothing.†   (source)
  • I can't help what the dogma is.†   (source)
  • Stooping over, he kissed on the fair cheek his fellow-man, a felon in martial law, one who though on the confines of death he felt he could never convert to a dogma; nor for all that did he fear for his future.†   (source)
  • Bishop Brooks taught me no special creed or dogma; but he impressed upon my mind two great ideas—the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and made me feel that these truths underlie all creeds and forms of worship.†   (source)
  • "Why, you can have the religion of loving-kindness and purity at least, if you can't have—what do you call it—dogma."†   (source)
  • But as a dogma, modern natural science lived exclusively and solely from the metaphysical assumption that the forms by which we recognize and organize reality—space, time, causality—reflect a real state of affairs existing independent of our knowledge.†   (source)
  • As for what you said last time, on the strength of your wonderful husband's intelligence—whose name you have never told me—about having what they call an ethical system without any dogma, I don't see my way to that at all."†   (source)
  • And there you had the central dogma of atheistic freethinkers and their pseudo-religion, which presumed to abolish the Book of Genesis and replace it with a stultifying fable of enlightened knowledge, as if Haeckel had been present at the creation of the earth.†   (source)
  • It was a faith like any other, only worse and more obtuse than all the rest; and the word "science" itself was the expression of the most stupid son of realism, which did not blush at taking at face value the dubious reflections that objects left on the human mind and seeing them as the basis for the most dismal and vapid dogma anyone ever foisted on humanity.†   (source)
  • Gentle Father Iosif, the librarian, a great favorite of the dead man's, tried to reply to some of the evil speakers that "this is not held everywhere alike," and that the incorruptibility of the bodies of the just was not a dogma of the Orthodox Church, but only an opinion, and that even in the most Orthodox regions, at Athos for instance, they were not greatly confounded by the smell of corruption, and there the chief sign of the glorification of the saved was not bodily…†   (source)
  • In these architectures it seems as though the rigidity of the dogma had spread over the stone like a sort of second petrifaction.†   (source)
  • Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.†   (source)
  • Each race writes its line upon the book, as it passes; it erases the ancient Romanesque hieroglyphs on the frontispieces of cathedrals, and at the most one only sees dogma cropping out here and there, beneath the new symbol which it has deposited.†   (source)
  • And by separating there three series into their component parts, we shall find in the three eldest sisters, Hindoo architecture, Egyptian architecture, Romanesque architecture, the same symbol; that is to say, theocracy, caste, unity, dogma, myth, God: and for the three younger sisters, Phoenician architecture, Greek architecture, Gothic architecture, whatever, nevertheless, may be the diversity of form inherent in their nature, the same signification also; that is to say, liberty, the…†   (source)
  • They had wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated with arrogance; they should have succeeded.†   (source)
  • …about him, and not enough of Anacharsis Cloots; still, his mind, in the society of the Friends of the A B C, had ended by undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, and he had come to accept, as a definitive and magnificent evolution, the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human republic.†   (source)
  • To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in the immense blue pane of the firmament!†   (source)
  • Without being in the least in the world what is called Voltairian or a philosopher, or incredulous, being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established church, he knew it only as an august fragment of the social whole; order was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's estate and the rank of a functionary, he had centred nearly all his religion in the police.†   (source)
  • "Dogmas are difficult things," said Arthur.†   (source)
  • Thus, listening to an old lady of the church, who with all her power of persuasion and earnestness was unfolding the dogmas of Presbyterianism to him, he would lean forward in an attitude of exaggerated respectfulness and attention, one broad hand clinched about his knee, while he murmured gentle agreement to what she said: "Yes?†   (source)
  • Their entertaining myths transport the mind and spirit, not up to, but past them, into the yonder void; from which perspective the more heavily freightedtheological dogmas then appear to have been only pedagogical lures: their function, to cart the unadroit intellect away from its concrete clutter of facts and events to a comparatively rarefied zone, where, as a final boon, all existence—whether heavenly, earthly, or infernal—may at last be seen transmuted into the semblance of a…†   (source)
  • "You know," he said, "it's all very well to take up with morals and dogmas, so long as there is only yourself in it: but what are you to do when other people join the muddle?†   (source)
  • Do you feel competent, huh, to attack the dogmas of immunology?†   (source)
  • The church is not the stone building nor even the clergy and their dogmas.†   (source)
  • I was too full of narrow dogmas at that time to see it.†   (source)
  • She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of his soul, the abolition of time, place and circumstance, the etherealization of his blood into rapturous rivers of the very water of life itself, the revelation of all the mysteries and the sanctification of all the dogmas.†   (source)
  • …a locked door, a reserved, impenetrable chamber in which he still professed silently to himself that the Princesse de Sagan was not grotesque, and that Cottard's jokes were not amusing; in a word (and for all that he never once abandoned his friendly attitude towards them all, or revolted from their dogmas), they had discovered an impossibility of imposing those dogmas upon him, of entirely converting him to their faith, the like of which they had never come across in anyone before.†   (source)
  • A definition which tho' savoring of Calvinism, by no means involves Calvin's dogmas as to total mankind.†   (source)
  • Though he had thrown on one side the Christian dogmas it never occurred to him to criticise the Christian ethics; he accepted the Christian virtues, and indeed thought it fine to practise them for their own sake, without a thought of reward or punishment.†   (source)
  • Like the large majority of those who profess and daily repeat the dogmas and creeds of the world, she had come into her practices and imagined attitude so insensibly from her earliest childhood on, that up to this time, and even later, she did not know the meaning of it all.†   (source)
  • He said, looking away: "It would be just one of those cases in which my experiences go contrary to my dogmas.†   (source)
  • One thing troubled him more than any other; that Sue and himself had mentally travelled in opposite directions since the tragedy: events which had enlarged his own views of life, laws, customs, and dogmas, had not operated in the same manner on Sue's.†   (source)
  • …noncomformist, which had risen in him when suffering under a smarting sense of misconception, remained with him in cold blood, less from any fear of renewed censure than from an ultra-conscientiousness which would not allow him to seek a living out of those who would disapprove of his ways; also, too, from a sense of inconsistency between his former dogmas and his present practice, hardly a shred of the beliefs with which he had first gone up to Christminster now remaining with him.†   (source)
  • …support it," cried David who was deeply tinctured with the subtle distinctions which, in his time, and more especially in his province, had been drawn around the beautiful simplicity of revelation, by endeavoring to penetrate the awful mystery of the divine nature, supplying faith by self-sufficiency, and by consequence, involving those who reasoned from such human dogmas in absurdities and doubt; "your temple is reared on the sands, and the first tempest will wash away its foundation.†   (source)
  • Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking, by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles.†   (source)
  • I shall devote myself for a time to the examination of the Roman Catholic dogmas, and to a careful study of the workings of their system: if I find it to be, as I half suspect it is, the one best calculated to ensure the doing of all things decently and in order, I shall embrace the tenets of Rome and probably take the veil.†   (source)
  • As soon as the chiefs had received the answers to their questions, they walked away in silence, like men who deemed the matter disposed of, all Hetty's dogmas being thrown away on beings trained in violence from infancy to manhood.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Grant so happily blended the universally received opinions of the Christian faith with the dogmas of his own church that, although none were entirely exempt from the influence of his reasons, very few took any alarm at the innovation.†   (source)
  • Many a man has died with a heroic expression on his lips, but with heaviness and distrust at his heart; for, whatever may be the varieties of our religious creeds, let us depend on the mediation of Christ, the dogmas of Mahomet, or the elaborated allegories of the East, there is a conviction, common to all men, that death is but the stepping-stone between this and a more elevated state of being.†   (source)
  • In the sixteenth century the Reformers subjected some of the dogmas of the ancient faith to the scrutiny of private judgment; but they still withheld from it the judgment of all the rest.†   (source)
  • She had a strange religion of transmigration of souls all her own, in which she had firm faith, troubling herself little about the dogmas of the Church.†   (source)
  • "Your creeds and dogmas of a learned church May build a fabric, fair with moral beauty; But it would seem that the strong hand of God Can, only, 'rase the devil from the heart.†   (source)
  • Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to God.†   (source)
  • To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication of parasites, to force the past on the present,— this seems strange.†   (source)
  • …the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog providence of…†   (source)
  • …Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Moliere for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called…†   (source)
  • I had been religiously educated as a Presbyterian; and tho' some of the dogmas of that persuasion, such as the eternal decrees of God, election, reprobation, etc., appeared to me unintelligible, others doubtful, and I early absented myself from the public assemblies of the sect, Sunday being my studying day, I never was without some religious principles.†   (source)
  • The proud potent titles clanged over Stephen's memory the triumph of their brazen bells: et unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam ecclesiam: the slow growth and change of rite and dogma like his own rare thoughts, a chemistry of stars.†   (source)
  • In the course of a series of articles in /Harper's Magazine/, in 1913,[19] he laid down the dogma that "cultivated speech …. affords the only legitimate basis of comparison between the language as used in England and in America," and then went on: In the only really proper sense of the term, an Americanism is a word or phrase naturally used by an educated American which under similar conditions would not be used by an educated Englishman.†   (source)
  • It's in the dogma.†   (source)
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