Orthodox Quotes

572 Orthodox quotes by 179 unique authors

Radical views that are outside the mainstream generally (but not always) are more reliable than the dominant view because they are more regularly challenged and… — Michael Pare
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that… — Aldous Huxley
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. — Peter Straub
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a… — Amos Oz
Not one of the first six [U.S.] presidents was an orthodox Christian. Most of the founders were Deists, who "doubted that Christ was a god"… — Robert Sherrill
Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the… — Nick Cohen
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. — Abraham Cahan
More thinking is required, and we should all exercise our God-given right to think and be unafraid to express our opinions, with proper respect for… — Hugh B. Brown
The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must… — Samuel Hahnemann
To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall — Brian D. McLaren
Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a little, but not… — Brian D. McLaren
You know, my name .... comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov. And I believe… — Charles Schumer
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then… — William O. Douglas
You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts. — George Whitefield
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious… — Peter L. Berger
The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse, — Rob Bell
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative,… — Herman Wouk
I'm a New Testament Christian. I reject and throw out titles. I'm not a fundamentalist, though I'm fundamental in all of my doctrine. I'm not… — Bill Bright
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism,… — Theodore Schroeder
I don't believe that God is a fussy faultfinder in dealing with theological ideas. He who provides forgiveness for a sinful life will also surely… — Helmut Thielicke
My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox… — Emir Kusturica
I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There… — Emir Kusturica
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures… — Arnold Beichman

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