“The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if… — William Blake Copy Share Image
But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Atomism was viciously persecuted as heresy throughout the early Christian era, and only one printed manuscript of De Rerum Naturum survived the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
“What sort of God do we serve? Certainly not one who can be tamed or boxed or fully understood. Don't get me… — Stephen Altrogge Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we could understand a… — J.D. Greear Copy Share Image
“Secularization—that is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this fading age—is not just something… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel… — Nicky Cruz Copy Share Image
Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Marx concocted his heresy in a time in which greatly increased knowledge of nature had, as we remarked earlier, sent Nature’s God… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“faith is a free work to which no one can be forced. Heresy is a spiritual matter and cannot be prevented by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“What is the use of whining to me about your difficulties? If you are proceeding on the Enemy’s idea of ‘justice’ and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability;… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one… — Frank B. Salisbury Copy Share Image
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Here is an example to help you understand the efficacy of the Rosary. You remember the story of David who vanquished Goliath.… — Columba Marmion Copy Share Image
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Whoever will listen will hear the speaking heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“After an injunction had been judicially intimated to me by this Holy Office, to the effect that I must altogether abandon the… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them… — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“How many years have I spent lighting incense and candles? Meditating? Chasing after gurus and teachers, reading all that crap, following every… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image