Heresy Quotes · Page 2

We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT.

— Theodore Kaczynski

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

— Elie Wiesel

Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

— Peter Kropotkin

Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

I had thought of annihilating the entire block that I lived on.

— Edmund Kemper

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

— Vincent of Lerins

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

— Frank Zappa

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

— Storm Jameson

“Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen.”

— Dan Simmons

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

— J. I. Packer

Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

— Sun Tzu

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

— H. L. Mencken

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

— Galileo Galilei

“Christianity is the heresy of heresies, the underlying cause of the weakness, lethargy, sickness, and failure of the modern church.”

— Peter J. Leithart

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

— James Joyce

“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history…

— Shannon L. Alder

Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu…

— Shashi Tharoor

“Therefore, the pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase…

— Anonymous

Sincerity is all that counts. It's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People…

— Tom Driberg

The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as…

— David Cameron

A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the…

— Jackie Morse Kessler

The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice;…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into…

— Paul Washer

Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all…

— George Gillespie

Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue.…

— Zhuangzi

“I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

The interesting thing about fake news and fake media is that it's a heresy against reality. Again, as a Catholic, I was…

— Stephen Colbert

The real controversy comes with anthropologists - not all, but some - who see themselves as studying culture, and they then see…

— Hal Whitehead

What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than…

— Anonymous

He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither…

— John Knox

You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.

— George Carlin

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

— Aristotle

The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

— Saint John Chrysostom

A heretic can be tolerated. But a heresy cannot.

— Mahathir Mohamad

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

— Learned Hand

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

— Henry David Thoreau