Heretic Quote by Anonymous

Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good,…

— Martin Luther

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

— Saint Augustine

Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the…

— Martin Luther

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be…

— Edward R. Murrow

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the…

— Lev Shestov

Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved…

— Learned Hand

“The heretics were never dishonest men; they were mistaken men. They should not be thought of as men who were deliberately setting out to…

— David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And not only…

— Umberto Eco

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

— G. M. Trevelyan

“Now all these [heretics] are of much later date than the bishops to whom the apostles committed the Churches; which”

— The Church Fathers

I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great…

— Anne Royall

There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose…

— John Stuart Mill