Top 216 Orthodoxy Quotes & Sayings

Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must live as slaves. It was an attempt to undermine not only the orthodoxy of dictatorship but also an international political orthodoxy where every activity must be approved by the profit logic of the 'ledger.'

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

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

The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future of mankind; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world. Orthodoxy does not believe in the religious ordering of human life upon the earth, and it compensates for its own hopeless pessimism by a call for the forceful ordering of it by state authority.

A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

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.

Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.

An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

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.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

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

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

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

Modern political liberalism, particularly its racial orthodoxy, is the science of excuse-making, the training of black minds for failure.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.

The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.

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.

Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.

I was raised in a community of Christian orthodoxy that had traveled with my parents to Los Angeles when they moved there for my father's job.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

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

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

Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal.

The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

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

Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster Confession... and discovers that in doing so one has turned from shallow modern phrases to a "dead orthodoxy" that is pulsating with life in every word. In such orthodoxy there is life enough to set the whole world aglow with Christian love.

It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something.

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.