Friendship Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”

— Susan B. Anthony

“They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold…

— Geoffrey Wood

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard…

— Anonymous

“Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging…

— Pat Conroy

“We do not accept the repentance of heretics because we do not believe them.”

— Shulem Deen

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Therefore I permit every man to hold either of these opinions, as he chooses. My one concern at present is to remove all scruples…

— Martin Luther

“Certainly all virtues are very dear to God, but humility pleases Him above all the others, and it seems that He can refuse it…

— St. Francis de Sales

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

“a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies…

— Rob Bell

“Church father Ignatius said that if our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, and the hungry, then we are…

— Shane Claiborne

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge