Orthodox Quotes

• My spiritual pain is unbearable. I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?

  

  Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Unbearable

• Love hunger and thirst for the sake of Christ. Insofar as you pacify your body, so much much will you do make your soul virtuous. God, who rewards thoughts, words, and deeds, will give good in return for even a small thing which you gladly suffer for His sake.

  

  Gennadius of Constantinople
  • Giving
  • Suffering
  • inspirational

• A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.

  

  Walter Hadwen
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Medicine

• If, for you, orthodox means finally “getting it right” or “getting it straight,” mine is a pretty disappointing, curvy orthodoxy. But if, for you, orthodoxy isn’t a list of correct doctrines, but rather the doxa in orthodoxy, which means “thinking” or “opinion,” then the lifelong pursuit of expanding thinking and deepening, broadening opinions about God sounds like a delight, a joy.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Joy
  • Delight
  • Correct doctrines

• When you're an orthodox worrier, some days are worse than others.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Orthodox

• I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

  

  Huston Smith
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Human

• Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.

  

  Norman Geisler
  • Church
  • Orthodox
  • Doctrines

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