Orthodoxy Quotes

Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say privately is they are fearful of being branded 'bigots' by an intolerant liberal orthodoxy that holds, against all evidence and experience, that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.

Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

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

I've got a pretty iconoclastic attitude about all institutions myself. And I just think the church was corrupted right after Christ was killed.

To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, … condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

A heretic can be tolerated. But a heresy cannot.

We are bound to be diligently watchful after the manner of a vigilant Shepherd and to ensure most carefully that certain people who consider the study of the truth beneath them should be driven out of the sheepfold of Christ and no longer continue to disseminate error from positions of authority. We refer in particular to those who in this age, impelled by their sinfulness and supported by their cunning, are attacking with unusual learning and malice the discipline of the orthodox Faith, and who, moreover, by perverting the import of Holy Scripture, are striving to rend the unity of the Catholic Church and the seamless tunic of the Lord.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

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

We know the clerical party; it is an old party. This it is which has found for the truth those two marvelous supporters, ignorance and error. This it is which forbids to science and genius the going beyond the Missal and which wishes to cloister thought in dogmas.

Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.

There would never have been an infidel had there never been a priest.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.

The Sparks: Refutation of Heretics and Innovators

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

There’s too much orthodoxy in the political process today.

Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.