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

Someone who wanted to challenge Orthodoxy would not be able to locate a building to hold a protest march in front of. The faith is too diffused.

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

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

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

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.

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.