Extreme orthodoxy betrays by its very frenzy that the poison of skepticism has entered the soul of the church; for men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken. Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring doubt.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

A society made up of individuals who were capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. The pressure of ideas would simply drive it frantic.