Heresy Quotes

206 Heresy quotes by 146 unique authors

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy. — Vincent of Lerins
The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said… — Richard M. Weaver
The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very… — George Bernard Shaw
The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy — Theodor Adorno
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
If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy. — Randall Terry
A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. — Eric Hoffer
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation:… — William Tyndale
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
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
The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference — Elie Wiesel
Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology. — J I Packer
We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend… — Pat Buchanan
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
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers...There are… — Ernst T. Krebs
To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite. — Vincent Van Gogh
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness,… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official… — Kenny Smith
A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet. In our culture-so… — Kenny Smith
Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy… — Brooks Atkinson
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving.… — Ben Hecht
I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead,… — Edward R. Murrow

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