Eastern Orthodox Churches

Famous quotes containing the words eastern, orthodox and/or churches:

    “Now Morn her rosy steps in th’ eastern clime
    Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
    You may get a bland smile from these sages;
    But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
    Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “The law of God is a law of change, and ... when the Churches set themselves against change as such, they are setting themselves against the law of God.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)