Definition of Orthodox

Orthodox

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.

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.

Approved; conventional.

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Orthodox Quotations

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
William Howard Taft

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.
Mortimer Adler

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
Sally Field

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.
Sun Myung Moon

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
Peter L. Berger

But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.
Amos Oz

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
Kevin Kelly

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
Robert Jackson

The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.
Robert Shea

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.
Robert Jay Lifton

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.
Norman Lamm

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.
Norman Lamm

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.
Leon Askin

When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!
Thomas Howard

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
Lord Melbourne

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
Abraham Cahan

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.
John Fiske

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Orthodox Translations

orthodox in Dutch is orthodox, rechtzinnig
orthodox in French is orthodoxe
orthodox in German is orthodoxe
orthodox in Spanish is ortodoxo

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