Orthodoxy Quotes - Page 2

• Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fashion, Atheist, Catholic

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, April 19, 1930.

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• But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Morning, Father

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton (chapter IV), 1908.

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

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Age

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• 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

  Attitude, Israel, Land

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• 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.

  Godfried Danneels

  Rome, Bishops, Accusation

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

  Abraham Kuyper

  Pits, Conservatism, Glorious

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

  William Weld

  Issues, Departed, Republican

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• 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

  Discovery, Wish, Firsts

  Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.87

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Prejudice, World, Forget

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• 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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Tired, May, Daisies

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• 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

  Atmosphere, Literature, Form

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Views

  "Rowan Atkinson: we must be allowed to insult each other". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2012.

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• 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

  Thinking, Shadow, Half

  "Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 169), 1997.

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  I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, God, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

  Juan Williams

  Country, War, Political

  "JUAN WILLIAMS: I Was Fired for Telling the Truth" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2010.

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Morality, Action, Vengeance

  "A short history of England". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

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• Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Education, School

  "Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1986.

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• If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Atheist, Christian Inspirational

  "Where All Roads Lead" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

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

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Sooner Or Later, Optional

  Richard John Neuhaus (2001). “The Best of "The Public Square".: Book two”, p.1, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Religious, Thinking, Religion

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.7

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• I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.

  Karl Lehmann

  Believe, Thinking, Agreement

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• Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Jesus, Years

  Brian D. McLaren (2005). “A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian”, p.33, Zondervan

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• Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dangerous Ideas, Yesterday, Today

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love.

  William Barclay

  Cost, World, Too Much

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• Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

  Gavyn Davies

  Needs, Serious, Problem

  "We must start thinking like South American dictators" by Gavyn Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2008.

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