Top Orthodox Quotes
Orthodox Definition
(a.) Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious doctrine; hence, holding the Christian faith; believing the doctrines taught in the Scriptures; -- opposed to heretical and heterodox; as, an orthodox Christian.
(a.) According or congruous with the doctrines of Scripture, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the like; as, an orthodox opinion, book, etc.
(a.) Approved; conventional.
The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic circles, if not beyond. Christians under the Roman Empire were neither...
Teresa Morgan
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history, martyrdom, fiction, superstition, academic, martyr, orthodox, rome, roman empire, christian martyrs
We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are abso...
H.P. Lovecraft
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truth, emotion, value, honor, atheism, evidence, cheat, conformity, indoctrination, brainwashing
The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what t...
Richard M. Rorty
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people, atheism, discrimination, morality, prejudice, think, ethics, atheist, morality without religion, orthodox
There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is so, my friend, and the moment you make yourself sincerely responsible for...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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god, religion, community, holiness, piety, orthodox, russia, the brothers karamazov, eastern orthodox