Orthodox Quotes - Page 31

• The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God.

  Li Hongzhi

  God, Believe, People

  Interview with William Dowell, content.time.com. May 10, 1999.

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• While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Strong, Long, World

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• The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Degrees, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.45

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• Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.

  George Orwell

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.

  Pope Pius X

  Father, Catholic, Doctrine

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• You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

  Walter Matthau

  Father, Thinking, Catholic

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• Radical views that are outside the mainstream generally (but not always) are more reliable than the dominant view because they are more regularly challenged and tested against evidence. They do not get to float freely down the mainstream; they must swim against the current. They cannot rest on the orthodox power to foreclose dissent, and they are not supported by the unanimity of bias that passes for objectivity.

  Michael Pare

  Views, Objectivity, Political

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• All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Cooking, Special

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same - the image of God.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Fall, Men

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

  Peter Straub

  Views, Evil, Fiction

  Peter Straub (2015). “Shadowland”, p.249, Penguin

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• If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Home, Might

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

  Learned Hand

  Running, Risk, Ends

  Oliver Wendell Holmes lecture at Harvard in 1958. "The Rhetoric of Our Times" by J. Jeffery Auer, p. 124, 1969.

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• Individuals for whom no orthodox cure is available surely are entitled to select a health care approach.....This right (is) specifically within,,,the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 14th amendments to the (US) Constitution....To be insensitive to the very fundamental civil liberties....(:) the choice...of the person whose body is being ravaged (by disease), is to display slight understanding of the essence of our free society and its constitutional underpinnings.

  Luther L. Bohanon

  Dark, Essence, Choices

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• He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Crush, Christian, Spiritual

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Jealousy, Lord, Heresy

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• The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.

  Joan Robinson

  Nature, Money, Work

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.1, Springer

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• He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light is but limited - and the illuminating grace of the Spirit abide in him. The first by means of practice trains the flesh in virtue, the second illuminates the intellect so that it chooses above all else companionship with wisdom; and through wisdom it destroys the strongholds of evil and pulls down 'all the self-esteem that exalts itself against the knowledge of God' (II Cor. 10:5).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Self Esteem, Mean

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

  Fritz Ridenour

  Christian, Religion, Orthodox Christian

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• Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting pot of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The democracy we founded with the Orange Revolution has to be an example for other post-Soviet states.

  Yulia Tymoshenko

  Ukraine, Europe, Orange

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• All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Today, Opinion

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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

  Sonia Johnson

  Backgrounds, Asks

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• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

  Saffron Burrows

  Moving, Actors, Film

  "Word comes through that another punch-up has taken place. Blimey. It's only day three..." by Saffron Burrows, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2001.

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• Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Thinking, Creeds

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• The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with Him to the Father, leaving the earth and earthly things behind, lest He say to us what He said to the Jews because of their stubbornness: 'I go where you cannot come (Jn. 8:21).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Father, Leaving

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• Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of that wisdom which is revealed to all: that we should know and praise God through His creation and that by means of the visible world we should understand whence we came, what we are, for what purpose we were made and where we are going. On the contrary, they travel through this present age in darkness... with... ignorance of God.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Ignorance, Mean

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