“We do not accept the repentance of heretics because we do not believe them.” — Shulem Deen Copy Share Image
Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“But this is what leads the heretics astray: that they look upon nature and person as the same thing” — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism.… — Saint Augustine 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
“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that… — Peter Kreeft 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
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“We owe a wealth of gratitude to the many heretics that have gone before us, those that had thought independently, and courageously,… — Beth Sage Owens Copy Share Image
Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe and what, in fact, they do… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The heretics were never dishonest men; they were mistaken men. They should not be thought of as men who were deliberately setting… — David Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Heretics are the new leaders. The ones who challenge the status quo, who get out in front of their tribes, who create… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-"relaxed," that is, burned at the… — James Reston 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
“This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and for those who dare doubt… — André Bjerke Copy Share Image
The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow… But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image