Heresy Quotes
Heresy Quote of the day
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.
O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.
The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, He will definitely come in!
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.
Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.
My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
I think I came here as a priest... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must be eliminated.
Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.
It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...
Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.
After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, 'Still, the Earth is moving.'
If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.
Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
