The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
— Peter L. Berger
Except, perhaps, that he was an atheist in theology, he was a strict orthodox Christian.
— Sinclair Lewis
ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
— Ambrose Bierce
You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.
— Chris Hillman
The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.
— Henry Steele Commager
The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.
— P.T. Barnum
Orthodox chanting is non-emotional; it's very monotone.
— Troy Polamalu
an unbeliever may be as bigoted as any of the orthodox, and
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.
— Arsenius The Great
A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.
— Walter Hadwen
The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers.
— Benny Fine
Just saw an orthodox Jewish kid do 3 pull-ups on the scaffolding. Shattering the previous record.
— Gary Gulman
My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
— Lord Melbourne
A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.
— Arsenie Boca
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
— Peter Straub
All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.
— Richard John Neuhaus
I haven't had an orthodox career.
— Sally Field
Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you.
— Pachomius The Great
One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent. — Bertrand Russell
Me? I was pretty much an Orthodox Agnostic. I figured God probably existed, but I didn't have the time or energy to investigate. — Richelle Mead
The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest. — Theodore Parker
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits? — Anton Chekhov
They're convinced that the more conservative you are the more orthodox you are. They're more Catholic than the Pope. — Michael D. O'Brien
True knowledge is found only among those genuinely worshiping God. — John Cassian
From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism. — Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. — Walter Lippmann
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new. — Rob Bell
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. — Abraham Cahan
Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship. — E.L. Doctorow
Stand at the brink of despair, and when you see that you cannot bear it anymore, draw back a little, and have a cup of tea. — Sophrony Sakharov
A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us. — St. Anthony The Great
As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel. — Ayelet Shaked
Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely. — Kay Goodstadt
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest. — Walter Matthau
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun
What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material. — Elaine Pagels
As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell. — Elbert Hubbard
Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis. — Elizabeth Kenny
You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts. — George Whitefield
In theory it is still possible to be an orthodox religious believer without being intellectually crippled in the process. — George Orwell
In El Paso," the President said approvingly, "the people are homicidal but orthodox. — Edmund Morris
I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God. — Mahatma Gandhi
Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. — Bertrand Russell
Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray. — Dominique Moceanu
The wrong questions have been asked, by "liberals" and "radicals," by "conservatives" and "orthodox" alike. — N. T. Wright
Lots of Orthodox go to church every Sunday but don't know much about the faith. Yet they know that there is something that they don't know much about. — Frederica Mathewes-Green
Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired. — Maximus The Confessor
Have you ever dated a Goth chick for four or five months until you realized she was just an Orthodox Jew? They have the same costumes. — Dana Gould
In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules. — Paul Rand
It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. — George Orwell
Orthodox Christians must not stoop to conquer. — Edward F. Hills
When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews. — Judy Gold
I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for. — Sonia Johnson
I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week. — Luke Ford
If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox. — E.W. Howe
I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman. — Dominique Moceanu
The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians. — Robert Shea
I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form. — Huston Smith
The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct. — Mahatma Gandhi
The path I follow is still an Orthodox path. You have to follow a path; otherwise, it becomes a little bit new-age, a bit of this, a bit of that. — John Tavener
My mother was a good Catholic she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic. — Sue Monk Kidd
The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest? — William E. Nix
Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man. — Wyndham Lewis
The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse. — Rob Bell
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe. — William Howard Taft
I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep. — Terry Tempest Williams
The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know. — Adrian Rogers
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy. — G.K. Chesterton
I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky
I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been. — Robert E. Howard
The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky
In the struggle for the soul of American Jewry, the Orthodox model has triumphed. — Samuel G. Freedman
Is your Christian experience a set of definitions, a list of orthodox doctrines, or a living relationship with God? — Warren W. Wiersbe
Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sometimes there is a thin line separating orthodox zeal from apostasy,' said Father Lenar Hoyt — Dan Simmons
Paul drew, however, little more than hostility from those identified as the Orthodox party, for whom any change threatened their security. — John Shelby Spong
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. — Boris Pasternak
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it. — David Novak
ignorance is the cause of the unbelief that fails of the inheritance. If, in our orthodox Churches, the abiding in — Andrew Murray
