Famous quotes containing the words russian and/or orthodox:
“Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosophers stone.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“The gloomy theology of the orthodoxthe CalvinistsI do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notionsnay, most of the notionswhich orthodox people have of the divinity of the Bible, I disbelieve. I am so nearly infidel in all my views, that too, in spite of my wishes, that none but the most liberal doctrines can command my assent.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
Related Phrases
Related Words