Heresy Quotes

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.

One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.

Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.

All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere! (Linus)

Heresy no longer existed within religion itwas founded in the state.

So I fight for a Father who I never loved, against a brother that I did. I defend an empire that never wanted me against an army that would have taken me in a heartbeat.

Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.

The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to fit the human soul.

People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.

History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought I was joking, I wasn't." - Malcador

For what religion has never had sects? Rest assured, Extremism is always the derrière.

There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.