Orthodox Quotes

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

I hold the ratchet unorthodox. Pernell Whittaker, I'm duckin' all sorts of shots

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

If everything that exists was made by God and for God, and God is superior to the things made by Him, he who abandons what is superior and devotes Himself to what is inferior shows that he values things made by God more than God Himself.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

True knowledge is found only among those genuinely worshiping God.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.

Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy.

It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.

My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you.

I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable

It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.