“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
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later. — Kristine Kathryn Rusch Copy Share Image
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses — Berl Katznelson Copy Share Image
Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism.… — Saint Augustine 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
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
“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Now all these [heretics] are of much later date than the bishops to whom the apostles committed the Churches; which” — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“When they painted Heretics on our barn and set fire to it, I thought that was the worst it could get. Until… — Laurie Forest Copy Share Image
“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed. The truth is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“[it is also incumbent] to hold in suspicion others who depart from the primitive succession, and assemble themselves together in any place… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“In a BBC broadcast in 1934, when he was a year away from finishing The General Theory, Keynes pinpointed the fundamental difference… — Stephen A. Marglin Copy Share Image
“The heretics were never dishonest men; they were mistaken men. They should not be thought of as men who were deliberately setting… — David Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Pastor Bates was a careful reader of theology, literature and history. He delighted especially in Gibbon's woeful treatment of Christians in The… — Scott M. Morris Copy Share Image
“The religion of the flag promptly replaced the cult of heaven, an old cloud which had already been deflated by the Reformation… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“But this is what leads the heretics astray: that they look upon nature and person as the same thing” — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
“We do not accept the repentance of heretics because we do not believe them.” — Shulem Deen Copy Share Image