Oriental Orthodox Churches

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    “Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity. The one looks in the sun until his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)