Quotes of: Orthodoxy Keyword

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

N. T. Wright

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

Aldous Huxley

The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to read the books 'any old time they have a mind to,' libraries will remain the nurseries of heresy and independence of thought. They will, in fact, preserve...

American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America

Orthodoxy is my doxy and heterodoxy is your doxy.

Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Glenn Greenwald

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

William Weld

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Jeffrey Tucker

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.

Edgar Quinet

If Mere Christianity helps make Christianity comprehensible, Orthodoxy makes it weird again.

Life

Someone who wanted to challenge Orthodoxy would not be able to locate a building to hold a protest march in front of. The faith is too diffused.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

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

Francis Schaeffer

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.

Thomas Huxley

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

George Orwell

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

Abraham Kuyper

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Reinhold Niebuhr

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

Christopher Hitchens

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Ruth Hubbard

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

Norman Lamm

The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.

For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

Rowan Atkinson