#orthodox

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

#been #believe #communion #despite #first

But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country. ↗

— Amos Oz

#been #between #coalition #country #determine

Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3) ↗

— David Bentley Hart

#christianity #eastern-orthodox #beauty

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#arise #become #being #being overwhelmed #enough

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#eyes #fixed #jews #orthodox #palestine

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form. ↗

— Huston Smith

#am #assumed #form #god #had

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

— William Weld

#i #issues #orthodoxy #radically #republican

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

#being #buried #collateral #conversation #correctness

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

#always #atmosphere #completely #damaging #forms

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

#becomes #discovery #enriched #every #first