Orthodox Quotes

The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms and fluctuations of developed economies.

If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.

I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.

Have you ever dated a Goth chick for four or five months until you realized she was just an Orthodox Jew? They have the same costumes.

All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.

I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.

If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

In the struggle for the soul of American Jewry, the Orthodox model has triumphed.

I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.

I actually performed at an orthodox Jewish wedding, where the men were separated from the women, but they both came together to not enjoy what I was talking about.

I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox.

I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone who loves Jesus, I'll work with them.

I do believe that, in time, doctors - both alternative and orthodox - will begin using whatever is the highest best treatment for their patients, regardless of the modality.

In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and orthodox churches. Darkness indicates that something serious is happening.

I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.

I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family.

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

When you're an orthodox worrier, some days are worse than others.

According to the orthodox Christian's Bible, all religions do not lead to God.

The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic Lite, will continue to die.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I think it probably does indeed influence what I do.

The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians! Their blood is one and the same. Their blood confesses Christ.

[Orthodox] are brothers, but I must respect them.

I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us.

I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my interest, so I think as a child I was often very baffled by knowledge claims.

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."

I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we're not recognizing the dignity of all people.

I haven't had an orthodox career.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood. These guys do not do friends in the orthodox sense!

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.