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Orthodox Quotes by Gregory of Nyssa
- For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with…
- There have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through Whom the generation of the birth of believers takes place, and…
- It is impossible that one who has turned to the world and feels its anxieties, and engages his heart in the wish to please men,…
- ... where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh…
- There is one antidote for evil passions: the purification of our souls which takes place through the mystery of godliness. The chief act of faith…
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- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Progress, this great heresy of decay. — Charles Baudelaire
- One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six… — Mortimer Adler
- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. — Samuel Butler
- I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and… — Marina Abramovic
- (When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the… — Carl Sagan
- If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and… — Robert D. Brinsmead
- [Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow
- It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At… — Bertrand Russell
- We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the… — Harry S. Truman
- Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll