Gnostics Quotes
- Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds… — Irenaeus of Lyons
- He who retains unchangeable in his heart the rule of the truth which he received by means of baptism will doubtless recognise the names, the… — Irenaeus of Lyons
- And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e., the gnostics] has been instigated… — Irenaeus of Lyons
- GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into… — Ambrose Bierce
- The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the… — Dion Fortune
- The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians. — Robert Shea
- Gnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman...they don't want to. — John Hagee