Accepted Quote by Lev Shestov

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

“The heretics were never dishonest men; they were mistaken men. They should not be thought of as men who were deliberately setting out to…

— David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved…

— Learned Hand

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

— G. M. Trevelyan

“Now all these [heretics] are of much later date than the bishops to whom the apostles committed the Churches; which”

— The Church Fathers

Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the…

— Martin Luther

For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And not only…

— Umberto Eco

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 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

Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians,…

— Thomas Hobbes

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

If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm…

— A.J. Ayer