Orthodoxy Quotes

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.

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

Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

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

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

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

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

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.

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 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.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

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

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

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

When the economic orthodoxy can no longer deliver, political turbulence follows. That doesn't mean the left will win, but it means there is an opportunity to be seized.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal.

The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

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.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

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

Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.

I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?"

Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.

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

Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

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.

Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.

(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.

What is the basic difference between saying 'I know that God exists' and saying 'I know that love exists'?

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn’t the one driving.

Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.