A Quote by Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

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Age Becomes Heresy Next Orthodoxy

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Helen Keller
American - Author
June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

Helen Keller

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

Karl Rahner

But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.

Umberto Eco

In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.

R. C. Sproul

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

Blaise Pascal

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

Desiderius Erasmus

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

George Bernard Shaw

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

Harriet Martineau

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

William Ralph Inge

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

Edith Hamilton

To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the doctrines and dogmas to which they have sworn their loyalty. Instead they rationalize, revise, and re-interpret them to meet new needs and new circumstances, all the while protesting that their heresy is the purest orthodoxy.