{"quotes":[{"text":"It is more practical to make people transform their mindset about religion and religiousness and walk in the path of creed-less religious harmony, than to convert the entire religious population on earth into atheists.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheists","brainy","free-thinking","fundamentalism","harmony","inspirational","love-and-kindness","orthodoxy","peace","philosophy","rational-thinking","religion","religious-extremism","religious-harmony","religious","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","thinkers","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":8048,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"In the late Middle Ages the stupefying simplicity of the heliocentric model was used as an argument to discredit the new astronomy. Its elegance was interpreted as naivete...Just as the legendary inquisitor refused to look through Galileo's telescope, so most modern economists refuse to look at an analysis that might displace the conventional centre of their economic system.","author":"Ivan Illich","tags":["economics","iconoclasm","orthodoxy"],"id":15080,"author_id":"Ivan+Illich"},{"text":"The truth of history lies simultaneously in the substratum of created existence (since all beings are the willed realizations of God's love); in the fulfillment of the future of history (since God's love, in His will and its expressions - namely, created existence - is identifiable with the final communion of creation with the life of God); and in the incarnate Christ (since on God's part the personification of this loving will is the incarnate Christ). Whereby Christ becomes the 'principle' and 'end' of all things, the One who not only moves history from within its own unfolding but who also moves existence even from within the multiplicity of created things, toward the true being which is true life and true communion.","author":"John D. Zizioulas","tags":["christ","history","orthodoxy","truth"],"id":20883,"author_id":"John+D.+Zizioulas"},{"text":"Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching.","author":"Seraphim Rose","tags":["choice","inspirational","life","orthodoxy","religion","religious"],"id":22250,"author_id":"Seraphim+Rose"},{"text":"Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["christianity","danger","logic","mad","mathematicians","orthodoxy"],"id":28728,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"...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.","author":"Elder Porphyrios","tags":["christ","christian","christianity","friendship","love","orthodoxy","spirituality"],"id":41049,"author_id":"Elder+Porphyrios"},{"text":"In the Congress of the United States, Cromwell had known a good many men who were possessed of absolute certainty, and this he feared so much that he felt the only real and enduring evil on the face of the earth was unbending certainty, unshakable orthodoxy.","author":"Howard Fast","tags":["certainty","congressmen","legislators","orthodoxy","politicians"],"id":53734,"author_id":"Howard+Fast"},{"text":"An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["catholic","church","orthodoxy"],"id":55404,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["bible","bible-reading","brainy","buddha","buddhism","christ","church","church-leadership","compassion","fundamentalism","hindu","hinduism","holy-bible","inspirational","inspiring","love","love-thy-neighbor","new-testament","nirvana","old-testament","orthodoxy","philosophy","religion","religious-extremism","religious-faith","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","truth","violence","wisdom","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":65003,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God.… Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ.","author":"Seraphim Rose","tags":["athiesm","christ","nihilism","orthodoxy","religion"],"id":70823,"author_id":"Seraphim+Rose"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":78,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}