Quaker Culture: Unorthodoxy
- Author(s):
- Harold Loukes
- Issue:
- On Heritage (July 2016)
- Department:
- Quaker Culture
[The] very raison d’etre of Quakerism lies in the claim that a passionate unorthodoxy is nearer to the truth than a habitual orthodoxy. . . We believe that mere orthodoxy has little value, and that confused, muddled thought of God is better than the repetition of formulas without thought; that it is better to think wrong than not to think at all.
– Harold Loukes (1958)