Orthodoxy Quotes

118 Orthodoxy quotes by 96 unique authors

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession… — Laurence Housman
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy. — William Warburton
Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need… — Gavyn Davies
Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day. — Brian D. McLaren
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.… — George Orwell
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which… — Sheri S. Tepper
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend… — Ruth Hubbard
For many years there have been treatments available which are successful and usually NOT harmful for diseases, such as AIDS, cancer, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, organ… — Unknown Author
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. — B. H. Liddell Hart
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in… — Bill Moyers
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. — Andre Gide
In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left — Peter Kreeft
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker
When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building… — Eric Metaxas
Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry -… — John D. Caputo
[I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United States are still… — William Kristol
Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines… — Jesse Ventura
I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose.… — Barack Obama
I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a… — Karl Lehmann
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
Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state. — Norman Lamm
There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy. — William Weld
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. — Abraham Kuyper
Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be… — Godfried Danneels
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which… — Soren Kierkegaard

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