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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
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
I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
— Robert E. Howard
All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.
— Wyndham Lewis
Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest?
— William E. Nix
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 only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In the struggle for the soul of American Jewry, the Orthodox model has triumphed.
— Samuel G. Freedman
ignorance is the cause of the unbelief that fails of the inheritance. If, in our orthodox Churches, the abiding in
— Andrew Murray
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
— David Novak
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
Paul drew, however, little more than hostility from those identified as the Orthodox party, for whom any change threatened their security.
— John Shelby Spong
Sometimes there is a thin line separating orthodox zeal from apostasy,' said Father Lenar Hoyt
— Dan Simmons
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.
— Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Is your Christian experience a set of definitions, a list of orthodox doctrines, or a living relationship with God?
— Warren W. Wiersbe
The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.
— Vladimir Zhirinovsky
I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.
— Vladimir Zhirinovsky
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
— G.K. Chesterton
The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.
— Adrian Rogers
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
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
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
What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.
— Elaine Pagels
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.
— Jacques Barzun
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
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
Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.
— Kay Goodstadt
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
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
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
Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship.
— E.L. Doctorow
Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.
— Elizabeth Kenny
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
— Walter Lippmann
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
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
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
— Anton Chekhov
The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.
— Theodore Parker
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
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
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
If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.
— E.W. Howe
I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.
— Sonia Johnson
Orthodox Christians must not stoop to conquer.
— Edward F. Hills
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
— George Orwell
Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.
— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
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
The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.
— Robert Shea
Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.
— Maximus The Confessor
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
The wrong questions have been asked, by "liberals" and "radicals," by "conservatives" and "orthodox" alike.
— N. T. Wright
Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.
— Dominique Moceanu
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
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
In El Paso," the President said approvingly, "the people are homicidal but orthodox.
— Edmund Morris
In theory it is still possible to be an orthodox religious believer without being intellectually crippled in the process.
— George Orwell
You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.
— George Whitefield