Religion Quote by James Reston

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the…

— Lev Shestov

“in Spain, thus gleaned of all heresy, the Inquisition could still swell its lists of murders to thirty-two thousand!”

— John Foxe

“...throughout history the community of readers has been prey to sinister forces - to pedants and priests, legislators and lunatics, deities and demagogues. You…

— James K. Morrow

The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christianity, is never included in the list of…

— Søren Kierkegaard

To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - [Thomas More] burning of heretics. It was well…

— Hilary Mantel

“We are surrounded by the dry thorns of the Inquisition on all four sides; throwing around words burning like fire is the shortest way…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics…

— Peter Kreeft

“King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella created the Spanish Inquisition in 1480 primarily to deal with rumors of Judaizing by conversos.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great…

— Anne Royall

“We sometimes hear of the cruelties of the Inquisition, of the barbarity of the Irish, of the tyranny of priestcraft; but such cruelties, barbarities,…

— Mary Frances Cusack

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

— G. M. Trevelyan