Heretic Quotes

Heretic Quote of the day

You don't have a god in you, you are one.

O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.

Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

You know, I found out recently that the word "heretic" comes from the Greek word "airetikós", meaning "able to choose" - which pretty much says it all, don't you think?

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.

Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.

Conformists die, but heretics live forever.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

What I am is a heretic who's recanted, and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.

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

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.

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

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

Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

To Arab Sunni Islamists, Iranians are gabrs (Zoroastrians) while Shi'ites, including Arab ones, are rafidis (heretics) who must be “re-converted” or put to death.

In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will not let my church-going friends pat me on the head.

To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle and took him In !From the poem " Outwitted