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

Author: Abraham Kuyper (Journalist, Prime Minister, Statesman, Theologian) | Keywords: bury, conservatism, orthodoxy, pit, spurious, treacherous

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

Author: Francis Schaeffer | Keywords: biblical, orthodoxy, ugliest

«The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.»

Author: William Orville Douglas | Keywords: abuses, chose, compulsions, framer, Framers, orthodoxy, restrained, standardized, suffocate, suffocated, suffocates, suffocating, weighed

«Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin»

Author: Robert Green Ingersoll (Orator, Statesman) | About: Belief, Heresy | Keywords: coffin, coffins, cradle, cradled, cradles, From the Cradle, heresy, orthodoxy

«I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.»

Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Religion | Keywords: assure, assuring, examined, Last Day, orthodoxy, regarded, scriptures, suffered, The Last, virtue, vital

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

Author: Aldous Huxley (Critic, Novelist) | Keywords: diehard, orthodoxy

«It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality»

Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: drain, imitator, imitators, originality, orthodoxy, pedant, pedants, pounce, pounced, pounces, stifled, stifles, stifling, stirrings

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

Author: Helen Keller (Author, Educator) | About: Age | Keywords: heresy, orthodoxy

«Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell»

Author: Robert Green Ingersoll (Orator, Statesman) | Keywords: fires, orthodoxy, put out

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