Orthodox church Quote by Dolores Cannon

The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.

— Robert Shea

“gnostics celebrated as proof of spiritual maturity, the orthodox denounced as “deviation”

— Elaine Pagels

“Descartes had somehow managed to use skepticism in service of orthodoxy; he preserved crucial shards of church doctrine—the immortal soul, for starters—while buying intellectual…

— Franklin Foer

“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with…

— Jeremy Bentham

I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience.

— Naomi Alderman

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into…

— Carl Jung

“Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.”

— Ross Douthat

The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“It was a mark of Constantine's political genius and flexibility that he realized it was better to utilize a religion(Christianity) that already had a…

— Charles Freeman

What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when…

— Troy Polamalu

“(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.”

— Rachel Held Evans