Orthodoxy Quotes

Orthodoxy Quote of the day

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

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

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.

A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.

I don't think we've got the gospel right yet.I don't think the liberals have it right. But I don't think we have it right either. None of us has arrived at orthodoxy.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided, resisted and overthrown.

A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.