Orthodox Quotes
572 Orthodox quotes by 179 unique authors
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As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave,…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Beauty will save the world
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way — a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow…
— Seraphim Rose
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...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture…
— Timothy Keller
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Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's…
— Wendell Berry
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We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared…
— Howard Zinn
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Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why…
— Christopher Isherwood
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God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how…
— Ronald J. Sider
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The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
— Thomas Jefferson
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In two areas above all others the Christian demonstration of love and communication stands clear: in the area of the Christian couple and their children;…
— Francis Schaeffer
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I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents…
— Unknown Author
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Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a…
— John Henrik Clarke
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You have the women sitting on the left and the men sitting on the right. Everything is to keep your mind focused on God... To…
— Troy Polamalu
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Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. And…
— Grover Norquist
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I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his…
— Huston Smith
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen…
— Dani Shapiro
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If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
— Dalai Lama
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The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible study.
— Noah Feldman
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Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance of traditional Jewish…
— Noah Feldman
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