Heretic Quotes

114 Heretic quotes by 93 unique authors

I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it youre presumed to… — Robert M. Pirsig
Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil. — Louis de Montfort
Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to… — Louis de Montfort
The entire force of the Conciliar revolt comes from the fact that it has apparently been imposed by the authority of the Church. How many… — Unknown Author
Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and… — Sheri S. Tepper
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 century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long… — Ellis Peters
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic — Ludwig Wittgenstein
If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out… — Aldous Huxley
I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is… — Sun Myung Moon
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for… — H. L. Mencken
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last.… — John Henry Newman
Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and… — Savitri Devi
We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses — Berl Katznelson
False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun
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
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. — Gelett Burgess
Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo. — Jay Griffiths
Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run… — Galileo Galilei
Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are… — John Donne
... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has received - the… — Pope Clement I
It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it. — William Shakespeare
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole… — John Stuart Mill
Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the] torture and the… — Walter Cronkite

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