#orthodox

The whole teaching of the Gospel is really a teaching about loving. The fact that we fall short of it condemns us, but doesn't make its declaration less true. ↗

— Metropolitan Anthony Bloom

#gospel #love #orthodoxy #love

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us. ↗

— St. Anthony the Great

#christian #coptic #modernity #orthodox #saint

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

— Brian D. McLaren

#orthodoxy #religion #tradition #religion

Orthodoxy as right belief will cost us little; indeed, it will allow us to sit back with our Pharisaic doctrines, guarding the ‘truth’ with the purity of our interpretations. But orthodoxy, as believing in the right way, as bringing love to the world around us and within us … that will cost us everything. For to live by that sword, as we all know, is to die by it. ↗

— Peter Rollins

#orthodoxy #religion #spirituality #love

Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely. ↗

— Kay Goodstadt

#brain-tumor #death #faith #food #gay

It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve. ↗

— James Joyce

#faith

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy. ↗

— William Warburton

#man #orthodoxy

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

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#going #had #healthy #i #iconoclastic