Isn't it strange how silence, in a way, has a sound of its…

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,…

— Saint Augustine

“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Pastor Bates was a careful reader of theology, literature and history. He delighted especially in Gibbon's woeful treatment of Christians in The Decline and…

— Scott M. Morris

Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves;…

— Saint Augustine

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a…

— Aleister Crowley

“It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the…

— Seth Godin

“We do not accept the repentance of heretics because we do not believe them.”

— Shulem Deen

The world is kept alive only by heretics.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation…

— Sun Myung Moon

I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this…

— Eusebius

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

— Jacques Barzun

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be…

— Edward R. Murrow

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of…

— Florence Nightingale