Orthodoxy Quotes

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

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

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

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.

Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

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.

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

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

Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say privately is they are fearful of being branded 'bigots' by an intolerant liberal orthodoxy that holds, against all evidence and experience, that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle.

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.

Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

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

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 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.

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

Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it's his strength.

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

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.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

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

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

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

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

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

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.

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

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.