“Many a modern preacher is far less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is with his popularity with his… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
“Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and,… — C.J. Sansom 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 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
“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
“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 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
“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
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
But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the… — Umberto Eco 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… — Anonymous 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
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
That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
“If history has shown anything, it is that where there is a God, there is an institution trying to lock up that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality.… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
“The encrusted religious structure is not changed by its institutional dependents--they are part of the crust. It is changed by one who… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
“But those who manage to genuinely place their hopes totally in God will never be disappointed. God will be with them continuously.… — Kyriacos C. Markides Copy Share Image
The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
“Since God knows created beings as the realizations of His will, it is not being itself but the ultimate will of God's… — John D. Zizoulas 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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