Quotes about Orthodoxy

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Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility. — Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one anot — Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
It is of great significance if there is a person who truly prays in a family. Prayer attracts God's Grace and all the me — Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us — Rachel Held Evans, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
What is the basic difference between saying 'I know that God exists' and saying 'I know that love exists'? — Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and sa — John D. Caputo, What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church
Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life? — Frederica Mathewes-Green, At the Corner of East and Now: A Modern Life in Ancient Christian Orthodoxy
As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seate — Frederica Mathewes-Green
We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we as — Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
The first thing I fell in love with about Orthodoxy was that my opinions are irrelevant, which is a sign of the preserva — Atom Tate
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; i — Seraphim Rose, Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow — Seraphim Rose
Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical B — C.J. Sansom, Revelation
Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death. — Joseph Campbell, Mythology and the Individual
Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day. — Brian D. McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, mystical/poetic, biblical, charismatic/contemplative, ... emergent, unfinished Christian
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting — Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor
Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the — C.J. Sansom, Revelation
Orthodoxy as right belief will cost us little; indeed, it will allow us to sit back with our Pharisaic doctrines, guardi — Peter Rollins, How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church
One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as we — Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice