It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“In the late Middle Ages the stupefying simplicity of the heliocentric model was used as an argument to discredit the new astronomy.… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“The pigs had an even harder struggle to counteract the lies put about by Moses, the tame raven. Moses, who was Mr.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, all these guys talk about how the United States became a national security state after World… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“A marriage which does not constantly crucify its own selfishness and self-sufficiency, which does not ‘die to itself’ that it may point… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“faith is a free work to which no one can be forced. Heresy is a spiritual matter and cannot be prevented by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I knew a guy once who loved to read big theology books, and the bigger the book, the better to hide his… — Mike Wilkerson Copy Share Image
For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for Jerry or Sherri or… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The trouble has generally been . . . that people have emphasized either experience or doctrine at the expense of the other.… — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age;… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
“There was something that He hid from all men, when he went up a mountain to pray. There was something that he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
“Orthodoxy is the wide open field within which successful breeding can take place. If one maintains that Jesus was an eater of… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
What the issue here is, you get rid of all the conservative orthodoxy about capital gains, marginal tax rate, supply side economics,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“The original Christians regarded the deposit of faith, as finally inseparable from the very living substance of the Gospel in the saving… — Thomas F. Torrance Copy Share Image
“We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D—— on the score of orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit does not intervene a posteriori within the framework of Christology, as a help in overcoming the distance between an… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share Image
“Our modern theology, which in many ways has ceased to be personal, i.e. centered on the Christian experience of "person," nevertheless -… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“The truth of Wesley's words is established before our eyes: "Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“One of the basic difficulties inherent in the Greek conception of truth is that it implies that truth can be grasped and… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share Image
When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Thus the whole death is not the biological phenomenon of death but the spiritual reality whose "sting... is sin" (1 Cor. 15:56)… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in… — Nikolai Berdyaev 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… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It was given to Abba Anthony to see a doctor in Alexandria who was simply and humbly doing what God had given… — Elisabeth Behr-Sigel Copy Share Image
“The truth of history lies simultaneously in the substratum of created existence (since all beings are the willed realizations of God's love);… — John D. Zizoulas Copy Share Image
