Religion Quote by George Orwell

“Orthodoxy is life. If we don’t live Orthodoxy, we simply are not Orthodox, no matter what formal beliefs we might hold.”

— Seraphim Rose. Leaving the Orthodox Worldview

“If everybody who had brains and doubts left Orthodoxy, we would be in a great deal of trouble.”

— Chaim Potok

“How can we consider ourselves to be rational and proclaim that God is ineffable—beyond our frail human abilities to comprehend him—and in the same…

— Brian Goedken

“The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather intellectually fruitful,…

— Gregory B. Sadler

“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel…

— Richard M. Rorty

“However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts…

— Ross Douthat

“It needs to be said that faith-journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.”

— Timothy J. Keller

“Nobody has ever been and most certainly, never would be able to cut the wings of beliefs! Instead, they are nurtured for the needed…

— Trishala D Shah The Seller of Beliefs

“(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

“All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic…

— Jon Krakauer

“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the…

— Sigmund Freud

“...religious beliefs are simply beyond the scope of rational discourse.”

— Sam Harris