From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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Cardinal John Henry Newman (18011890), British churchman, theologian. History of My Religious Opinions from 1833-1839, Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864).