Being true Quote by John Donne

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be…

— Edward R. Murrow

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

— Saint Augustine

“Within the theological structure of the cults there is considerable truth, all of which, it might be added, is drawn from biblical sources, but…

— Walter Martin

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

— George Bernard Shaw

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard…

— Anonymous

“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

“The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.”

— John Stuart Mill

“a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies…

— Rob Bell

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation…

— Shadia Drury

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

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

— Isaac Asimov