“Most new ideas are branded as heresy, until a time when, either through science or technology, they can be proven as truth.” — S.E. Meyer Copy Share Image
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy. — Anonymous 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
“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 special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
“Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.” — Harold Bloom 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
“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 purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice;… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“ACT24.14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
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 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
“The usual heresy consists in denying the existence of a god who has created us. It is a much more interesting heresy… — Lars Gustafsson Copy Share Image
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Does the reader realise the despair that falls upon the hapless Catholic journalist at such moments; or how wild a prayer he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to… — Ernst T. Krebs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This may sound like heresy, but it is the greatest truth! It is more difficult to let God love us, than to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than… — Anonymous 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
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 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
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the… — Edward Kasner 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
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
Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue. — Anonymous 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
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
[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
“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
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
“...heresy was often perceived by the Church as a financial or political threat rather than merely a theological one.” — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image