“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn." "That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realize it's… — Aaron Dembski-Bowden Copy Share Image
[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. — William Shakespeare 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
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.' — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I… — Fidelis of Sigmaringen Copy Share Image
The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Who does not see that heresies have some time prevailed, that reforms have already taken place? All this worldly wisdom might be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
“Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol. All… — Matthew Hammond 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
They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly...… — Galileo Galilei 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
“[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
“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
Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“Later orthodox theologians would have found this view completely inadequate. In stressing that the Father was “greater” than the Son, Tertullian articulated… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
Americans are an "almost chosen people," which is meant to suggest that there are clear parallels, literal, theological and everything else, between… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares. — Mike Tyson 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
“[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
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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
“People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.” — D.R. Silva 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
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
If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy. — Randall Terry 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
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