Orthodoxy Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

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.