Orthodoxy Quotes
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As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
For what need would I have to say, 'I believe,' if I already knew?
(from The Church is One) — Aleksey Khomiakov
(from The Church is One) — Aleksey Khomiakov
As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.
— Nancy Pearcey
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.
— George Orwell
A small circle is quite as infinite as a large circle; but, though it is quite as infinite, it is not so large.
— G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy is my doxy and heterodoxy is your doxy.
— Bart D. Ehrman
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
— Helen Keller
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.
— David Hare
God's love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God
— Arsenie Boca
Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.
— Stephen Kinzer
Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.
— Joseph Campbell
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.
— Charles E. Schaefer
What if orthodoxy is the greatest of all heresies?
— Daniel Thompson
Orthodoxy builds a rococo logical palace on loose empirical sand.
— Richard R. Nelson
Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men.
— Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Somebody who is Christ's must love Christ, and when he loves Christ he is delivered from the Devil, from hell and from death.
— Elder Porphyrios
What is the basic difference between saying 'I know that God exists' and saying 'I know that love exists'?
— Metropolitan Anthony Bloom
The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] - He wants us to be good and kind.
— Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.
— Bassam Tibi
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
Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power.
— Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.
— Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their greatest act of submission.
— Matt Chandler
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
— Elbert Hubbard
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
— Elbert Hubbard
If Mere Christianity helps make Christianity comprehensible, Orthodoxy makes it weird again.
— Leah Libresco
By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
— George Orwell
The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
— Oliver E. Williamson
There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
— G. M. Trevelyan
It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy.
— A.E. Samaan
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.
— Paul Evdokimov
Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.
— Alister E. McGrath
After the evil spirit of a narrow Scholastic orthodoxy has been driven out, in the end seven much more wicked spirits return in its place.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.
— Helen Foster Snow
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
— Abraham Kuyper
Homosexuality, to the limited extent it was discussed in our church, was little more than a political football, a quick test of orthodoxy.
— Matthew Vines
Is it possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening "Do it again" to the moon." from Orthodoxy.
— G.K. Chesterton
Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.
— Howard Gardner
Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.
— Timothy Leary
It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something.
— Antonin Scalia
An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.
— G.K. Chesterton
It is the unrepentant worship of statistics that forms the true orthodoxy of any modern police department.
— David Simon
You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.
— Mark Twain
The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.
— Eric Hoffer
Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.
— Bertrand Russell
It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.
— Richard Rohr
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
— William Warburton
Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.
— Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
— Jeffrey Tucker
Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.
— Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
Someone who wanted to challenge Orthodoxy would not be able to locate a building to hold a protest march in front of. The faith is too diffused.
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
If everybody who had brains and doubts left Orthodoxy, we would be in a great deal of trouble.
— Chaim Potok
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.
— John Chrysostom
I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy.
— Satya Nadella
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
— Christopher Hitchens
In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
— Peter Kreeft
I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.
— G.K. Chesterton
Biblical orthodoxy can offer real compassion, because in our struggle against sin, we cannot undermine God's power to change lives.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
[Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, June 23, 2006] — Salman Rushdie
[Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, June 23, 2006] — Salman Rushdie
Whatever you find, you also find the fear that you may lose it. Whatever you fall in love with fills you with the sorrow of its loss...
— St. Nikolai Velimirovich
At this moment what is demanded by the prevailing orthodoxy is an uncritical admiration of Soviet Russia. Everyone
— George Orwell
Jesus clearly taught orthopraxy (right behavior) much more than orthodoxy (right ideas).
— John Feister
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
— George Bernard Shaw
I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.
— Shepard Fairey
Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.
— Michael Atherton
Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love.
— William Barclay
Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
— William Weld
I was raised in a community of Christian orthodoxy that had traveled with my parents to Los Angeles when they moved there for my father's job.
— Margaret Stohl
He who wills to reject nothing, wills the destruction of will; for will is not only the choice of something, but the rejection of almost everything.
— G.K. Chesterton
At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.
— George Orwell
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
— Aldous Huxley
The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.
— Edith Hamilton
Everything is defeated before love.
— Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
Orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
— Gertrude Atherton
Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic.
— R. Alan Woods
Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.
— Brian D. McLaren
My body kills me, so I kill it.
— Dorotheus The Theban
Pluralism is the word society employs during the transition from one orthodoxy to another.
— E.R. Norman
There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton