Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these… — Richard Ramirez Copy Share Image
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I think I came here as a priest... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven;… — Samuel Bowers Copy Share Image
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now… — John Knox Copy Share Image
And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
With Metavoid, I wanted to move forward with the Lustmord sound, rather than recreating past works such as Heresy or Black Stars,… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither… — John Knox Copy Share Image
Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has… — Dorothea Singer Copy Share Image
“Heresy arises as a pained outcry to liberate us from this strange, narrow pit, to raise us from the darkness of letters… — Daniel Chanan Matt Copy Share Image
To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions;… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.” — John Stott Copy Share Image
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
“Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy. — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy. — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“...heresy was often perceived by the Church as a financial or political threat rather than merely a theological one.” — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge… — Mansur Al-Hallaj Copy Share Image
“a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
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