#orthodoxy

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

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#forget #learns #neither #orthodoxy #thought

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

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. ↗

— Helen Keller

#becomes #heresy #next #orthodoxy

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#clear #criticism #insult #interpreted #many

...This is the way we should see Christ. He is our friend, our brother; He is whatever is good and beautiful. He is everything. Yet, He is still a friend and He shouts it out, "You're my friends, don't you understand that? We're brothers. I'm not...I don't hold hell in my hands. I am not threatening you. I love you. I want you to enjoy life together with me. ↗

— Elder Porphyrios

#christian #christianity #friendship #love #orthodoxy

...Love Christ and put nothing before His Love. He is joy, He is life, He is light. Christ is Everything. He is the ultimate desire, He is everything. Everything beautiful is in Christ. ↗

— Elder Porphyrios

#christian #christianity #friendship #love #orthodoxy

When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#compassion #council #eastern-orthodoxy #god-s-love #love

Everything is defeated before love. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #inspirational #love #spirituality #inspirational

Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic". ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#faith-orthodoxy-theology-doubt #reason #reasoning #faith