“A heretic may be anyone whose outlook someone else dislikes or denounces. According to tradition, a heretic is one who deviates from… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains… — John Frame Copy Share Image
I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is… — James Black Copy Share Image
On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
“The first thing I fell in love with about Orthodoxy was that my opinions are irrelevant, which is a sign of the… — Atom Tate Copy Share Image
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“To share out your soul freely, that is what metanoia (a change of mind, or repentance)really refers to: a mental product of… — Christos Yannaras Copy Share Image
“...This is the way we should see Christ. He is our friend, our brother; He is whatever is good and beautiful. He… — Elder Porphyrios Copy Share Image
The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
For many years there have been treatments available which are successful and usually NOT harmful for diseases, such as AIDS, cancer, cystic… — Charles C. Pixley Copy Share Image
Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
“Groupthink to the extreme, lots of microfocus on just pieces of the puzzle, and an orthodoxy that tries to suppress anything that… — Bruce Buff Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable,… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we… — Ruth Hubbard Copy Share Image
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
You know, I found out recently that the word "heretic" comes from the Greek word "airetikós", meaning "able to choose" - which… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' conducted on the teli. Each rat runs… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Seeking to boost the number of young believers, the Church has successfully lobbied to make classes about Russian Orthodoxy mandatory in state… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“I won't pretend that I've arrived at humble orthodoxy. When I gain a bit of theological knowledge, I all too frequently get… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is… — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
