Heresy Quotes

206 Heresy quotes by 146 unique authors

Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery,… — David Pilbeam
Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation. — Unknown Author
To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do… — Robert A. Heinlein
Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation… — Saint Augustine
When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we believe this is… — Doug Davidson
I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one making the statement… — Frank B. Salisbury
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
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn,… — John Ruskin
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we… — Ben Okri
Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all the new Testament… — George Gillespie
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered… — James Joyce
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
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. — Lord Acton
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of… — Helen Keller
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. — Daniel Day-Lewis
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy. — Jorge Luis Borges
O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause… — Jan Hus
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of… — Pope Leo X
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy. — Ignatius Loyola
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct. — George Bernard Shaw
But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church… — Henry Edward Manning
Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines,… — Frederic Farrar

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