Heresy Quotes

206 Heresy quotes by 146 unique authors

The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, He… — Paul Washer
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. — Learned Hand
A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that… — John Knox
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
When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them to the documents… — Jean Guitton
The Pope should not flatter himself about his power nor should he rashly glory in his honor and high estate, because the less he is… — Pope Innocent III
Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes… — Chapman Cohen
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not… — Abraham Isaac Kook
Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy — Tertullian
For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true… — Hilary of Poitiers
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken… — Conrad Black
After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, `Still, the… — Junichiro Koizumi
Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one. — Unknown Author
Zionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy. — Roger Garaudy
I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we have a proper… — Josh McDowell
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned… — William Shakespeare
Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy — Louise Imogen Guiney
We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home… — Nicky Cruz
O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy. — Mansur Al-Hallaj
One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and… — R.J. Rushdoony
Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough… — Martin Luther
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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