Orthodox Quotes - Page 2

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels.

The more one is united to his neighbor the more he is united to God.

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?

A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.

Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say privately is they are fearful of being branded 'bigots' by an intolerant liberal orthodoxy that holds, against all evidence and experience, that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle.

Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.

A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.