Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Sin, blasphemy, heresy – all these are primitive ideas created by primitive creatures, unworthy of the title “human”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“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 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
To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the… — J. William Fulbright 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
Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
The Pope should not flatter himself about his power nor should he rashly glory in his honor and high estate, because the… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
The real controversy comes with anthropologists - not all, but some - who see themselves as studying culture, and they then see… — Hal Whitehead 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
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on… — Herbert Read 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
Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“Therefore, the pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“You heard him say it? 'Pain's the only evil I know about.' You heard that?" The monk nodded solemnly. "And that society… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
