The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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
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
“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
“People said— though this felt like a heresy— that they had seen Camille make Robespierre laugh.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. — James Joyce 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
It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we… — Doug Davidson Copy Share Image
...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
More than most, I believe I'm highly attuned to how heresies eventually become mainstream belief systems and how the vast majority of… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
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
“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
“Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learning than ever before in the history… — David D. Flowers Copy Share Image
Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of… — Elaine Pagels 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
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
“[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
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
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