Sheri S. Tepper Quotes

We have gone back to some kind of medieval orthodoxy. Muslim societies all over the world are seen going back to what we think are the origins. At the same time, the clergy has become very vocal and very angry. There is that sense of utopia, because orthodoxy is literalist; they want to go back to a period of what they call Sharia, the way the prophet lived, the way the prophet ruled. There is also a resistance to separate religion and the state. Therefore, there is an Islamic utopia that the Muslims wish to achieve

In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.

Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.

If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.

The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses the boundaries of traditional - center-right and center-left have much more in common with each other right now than the right does with the center-right, and the left does with the center-left.

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

I'm not really good at being predictive, so I guess I'm willing to be surprised.

I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.

The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

To be humble is to be teachable.

If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.

I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school. Nevertheless I know that I am, in spite of myself, exactly what the Christian would call, and, so far as I can see, is justified in calling, atheist and infidel.

The inexplicable happens all the time. It makes more sense to simply accept things we observe but cannot understand. It is really more scientific to keep an open mind. Until we can understand and explain the things we now label miracles, let us accept them and try to create more of them.

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical, and too tied up in power and being right. You call it a "rabid evangelism."