204 Quotes About Orthodoxy

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.

For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.

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.

Similar to religious fundamentalism, unrestrained intellect can make a person blind to the psychological necessities of others, for physical necessities are much easier to notice than those of the psyche.

I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting and someone threw a splash of red across it saying that their version is better, you would be offended too.

In effetti il pensiero non esisterà più, almeno non come lo intendiamo ora. Ortodossia vuol dire non pensare, non aver bisogno di pensare. Ortodossia e inconsapevolezza sono la stessa cosa.

The angels always and again appear as the executors of recompense.