Christianity Quote by Elaine Pagels

The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, nearly all…

— Elaine Pagels

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

— Ross Douthat

One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.

— Brian D. McLaren

Today's widespread relegation of religion to merely something people do only in the privacy of their homes or churches would have been unimaginable to…

— Charles Colson

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

— John Fiske

It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual…

— Bertrand Russell

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

— Peter Kreeft

Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

— Augusto Pinochet

Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become…

— Elaine Pagels

Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.

— Herman Melville

Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.

— G. Campbell Morgan