“The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
“Constantine saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing this… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But in the 17th century Russian Orthodoxy was gravely weakened by an internal schism. In the 18th, the country was shaken by… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn 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
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
“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
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
"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
“Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully… — 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 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
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 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
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
“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 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
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
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
“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
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
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 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
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
