Christian Orthodoxy Quotes

#1. Believing in the divinity of Jesus is the heart of Christian orthodoxy. But believing in the viability of Jesus's ideas makes Christianity truly radical.

Brian Zahnd

#2. Post-Christian societies are cultures where the Christian worldview was once the dominant worldview. Many European cities were once known for having a thriving Christian influence and a population that largely subscribed to the central tenets of Christian orthodoxy. Take

Stephen T. Um

#3. 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.

Margaret Stohl

#4. The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

Andre Gide

#5. In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.

Stanley Hauerwas

#6. I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.

Flannery O'Connor

#7. Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.

Flannery O'Connor

#8. Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite "ordinary" persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones.

Andrew Stephen Damick

#9. Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

Igor Stravinsky

#10. Don't apologize."
"I wasn't-"
"Not in words, but it was clear from your tone. Apology suggests that you are keeping me from doing what I need to do, which implies I am somehow powerless to do otherwise. It's a choice, Olivia.

Kelley Armstrong

#11. Brutality goes hand in hand with orthodoxy, be it Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Atheistic or any other.

Abhijit Naskar

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

Billy Graham

#13. Prisoned in glass beneath my seals of red.

Charles Baudelaire

#14. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#15. The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

Andrew Soutar

#16. The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather intellectually fruitful, willing to take and follow reason further than the putatively undogmatic unbelieving philosopher

Gregory B. Sadler

#17. I just hate going to the gym, unless I need to do cardio once in a while. I think gymming makes you stiff and takes your aura away.

Esha Gupta

#18. 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

#19. Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.

Brian D. McLaren

#20. I won't pretend that I've arrived at humble orthodoxy. When I gain a bit of theological knowledge, I all too frequently get puffed up with pride. But I'll tell you what deflates my arrogance and self-righteousness faster than anything else: trying to live whatever truth I have.

Joshua Harris

#21. 'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning.

Robert Gottlieb

#22. If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.

Betty Smith

#23. Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obedience.

Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

#24. It is your differences that make you glorious.

Neil Gaiman

#25. Being offended is a choice. I believe that. You don't have - you don't hear a word and you have to be offended.

John Bartlett

#26. All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

Ken Robinson

#27. My body kills me, so I kill it.

Dorotheus The Theban

#28. Somebody who is Christ's must love Christ, and when he loves Christ he is delivered from the Devil, from hell and from death.

Elder Porphyrios

#29. Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

Michael Davitt

#30. It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#31. If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world.

Alan Wolfe