Best Orthodoxy Words
118 Orthodoxy quotes by 96 unique authors
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Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are…
— George Orwell
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We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in…
— Brian D. McLaren
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But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power."…
— Umberto Eco
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To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record…
— George Orwell
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People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.
— Howard Gardner
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By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism…
— Martin Filler
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Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in…
— George Ayittey
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I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Someone who wanted to challenge Orthodoxy would not be able to locate a building to hold a protest march in front of. The faith is…
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
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The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.
— Billy Graham
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The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation…
— Simon Schama
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In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit.…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.
— Stephen Kinzer
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The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy…
— John Frame
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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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