#orthodoxy

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#doctrine #narrow-mindedness #orthodoxy #prophecies #religion

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox. ↗

— George Orwell

#orthodoxy #orwell #politics #writing #censorship

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#approach #approaches #demonstrated #depression #fails

Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #righteousness #life

The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#orthodoxy #right #wrong #courage

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

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