Orthodox Quotes - Page 30

• According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Islamic, Men, Choices

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 04, 2012

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• You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

  Knute Nelson

  Mean, Arrogance, Use

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• Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Human Nature, Worldly Things

  Francis Quarles (1857). “Emblems: Divine and Moral”, p.7

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

  Francis Schaeffer

  Biblical, Compassion, World

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• I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

  Huston Smith

  Jesus, Thinking, Way

  "Huston Smith: Rock star of religions turns 90" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. May 21, 2009.

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• The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Party, Hero

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• It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin begins is a matter as to which casuists differ. One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent. But I doubt whether modern authorities would agree with him on this point.

  Bertrand Russell

  Evil, Catholic, Doubt

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.77, Routledge

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• We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Religious, Civilization

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• Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Children, Pain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.216, Library of Alexandria

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• These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Heart, Three

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• Not one of the first six [U.S.] presidents was an orthodox Christian. Most of the founders were Deists, who "doubted that Christ was a god" and equated God with "the power behind nature, as discerned by science."

  Robert Sherrill

  God, Christian, Religion

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• Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many other alleged religious 'hatreds' are not hatreds in the true sense. If I criticise Islamic, Orthodox Jewish or Catholic attitudes towards women, for instance, and I'm accused of being a bigot, I shrug and say it is not bigoted to oppose bigotry.

  Nick Cohen

  Religious, Attitude, Islamic

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• O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.

  Jan Hus

  Father, Law, Judging

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• The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

  Abraham Cahan

  Religious, Jewish Faith, Religious Life

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• More thinking is required, and we should all exercise our God-given right to think and be unafraid to express our opinions, with proper respect for those to whom we talk and proper acknowledgment of our own shortcomings. We must preserve freedom of the mind in the church and resist all efforts to suppress it. The church is not so much concerned with whether the thoughts of its members are orthodox or heterodox as it is that they shall have thoughts.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Exercise, Thinking, Lds

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• The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must we think of this school, which nevertheless has continued to treat chronic diseases allopathically, with medicines and formulas that can only cause a disease condition -God knows which -dissimilar to the one being treated? Even if these physicians have not hitherto observed nature attentively enough, the miserable results of their treatment should have taught them that they were on the wrong road.

  Samuel Hahnemann

  School, Thinking, Should Have

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• To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Wall, Way

  Brian D. McLaren (2009). “A Generous Orthodoxy: By celebrating strengths of many traditions in the church (and beyond), this book will seek to communicate a “generous orthodoxy.””, p.205, Zondervan/Youth Specialties

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• Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a little, but not yet. Assuming by Christianity you mean the Christian understanding of the world and God, Christian opinions on soul, text, and culture I'd have to say that we probably have a couple of things right, but a lot of things wrong, and even more spreads before us unseen and unimagined. But at least our eyes are open! To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Wall, Couple

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• You know, my name .... comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov. And I believe Hashem [Orthodox for God] actually gave me that name. One of my roles, very important in the United States senate, is to be a shomer - to be a or the shomer Yisrael. And I will continue to be that with every bone in my body.

  Charles Schumer

  Wall, Believe, Ghetto

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• Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. ... Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. ... fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes in the land.

  William O. Douglas

  Book, Home, Government

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• You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

  George Whitefield

  Heart, Devil, May

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• But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.

  Amos Oz

  Running, Country, Years

  "Israel Under The Volcano". Interview with Jeremy Caplan, www.newsweek.com. February 28, 1999.

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• Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Thinking, Light, Free Spirit

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 36, 1799.

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• I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

  William Howard Taft

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.

  John of Damascus

  Christian, Icons, Environmental

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