Heresies Quotes
35 quotes by 25 authors
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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to…
— Ben Jonson
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Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation.
— Lev Gumilev
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And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though…
— Saint Augustine
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The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch…
— Umberto Eco
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion,…
— George Orwell
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Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy
— Tertullian
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Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious…
— Zhuangzi
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For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated…
— William Shakespeare
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It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard, you can lay…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions or mutations [heresies]…
— Darrel Ray
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Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind…
— Susan Sontag
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In a dead religion there are no more heresies.
— Andre Suares
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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
— Saint Augustine
Who Wrote These Heresies Quotes
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