Heretical Quotes

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Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second,… — Elbert Hubbard
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them… — Baruch Spinoza
In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and therefore perilous) as… — Jay E. Adams
One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim… — H. L. Mencken
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art.… — Edith Wharton
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . . You… — Hilaire Belloc
The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity… — Mark Hatfield
So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present… — Masao Abe
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not,… — Malcolm Forbes
There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding… — Laozi
There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written. — Ellen G. White
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is… — Julius Wellhausen
Godâ€™s grace in saving miserable sinners has been replaced by heretical teaching, such as saying that it is because we are so valuable that Christ… — Jay Adams
God extends his grace to his people (and mankind in general) when he destroys the wicked, because in destroying the wicked, he is averting their… — Andrew Sandlin
I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good… — John Updike
False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age; they must take… — John Angell James
If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along… — Erich von DÃ¤niken

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