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
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. — Noam Chomsky 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
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
Modern minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
“Lincoln was equidistant from the heresy which makes a person believed that he can do nothing, and the opposite heresy which makes… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now… — John Knox Copy Share Image
Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and… — Francis Parkman 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
I want to say to all you Scribes, Pharisees, heresy hunters, all of you that are going around pickin' little bits of… — Paul Crouch Copy Share Image
Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions;… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
“a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks… — Rob Bell 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
O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge… — Mansur Al-Hallaj Copy Share Image
Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by… — Ross Douthat 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
When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Rooting for the Dodgers once would have been heresy within my New York family. — Ed Henry Copy Share Image
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it. — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
“The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
“To some people independent thought is heresy and critical thought blasphemy” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image