#dox

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#began #christians #crowd #define #did

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner? ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#clinton #compassionate #conscious #could #his

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#freedom

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#faith #jewish #life #orthodox #practically

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

#brethren #highly #holy #holy land #israel

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

— Abraham Kuyper

#conservatism #glorious #orthodoxy #our #pit

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#orthodoxy #surely #thing #ugliest #without

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#paradox #truth #wisdom #age

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#music #paradox #understanding #age

And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#paradoxes #age