#orthodox

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life? ↗

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

#faith #meaning-of-life #orthodoxy #spirituality #faith

The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity. ↗

— D.A. Carson

#historic-christian-orthodoxy #philosophy-of-preaching #faith

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

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

— William Weld

#i #issues #orthodoxy #radically #republican

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

Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#among #came #change #consider #despite

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#disengagement #does #government #identify #israel

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

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew. ↗

— Leon Askin

#change #especially #even #father #great

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#cannot #christ #creed #divinity #i