Apologetics Quote by Pat Conroy

“We owe a wealth of gratitude to the many heretics that have gone before us, those that had thought independently, and courageously, and dared…

— Beth Sage Owens

“The simpler explanation,' Emerson with a distinct uvular component in his Sigh, 'may be that none of you people has ever known a moment…

— Thomas Pynchon

“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not venture to…

— Benjamin Franklin

My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is…

— John Adams

The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Church father Ignatius said that if our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, and the hungry, then we are…

— Shane Claiborne

“I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”

— Susan B. Anthony

“The preaching of two religious orders, the Dominicans and the Franciscans, reinforced distrust of Jews.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

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

“...to lead an individual along a spiritual path consonant with the person's gifts and personality...[The Jesuit training of novitiates and lay students]”

— John W. O'Malley S.J

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“this is blasphemy and you're a heretic”

— Drew Ketterer