Heresies Quotes

#1. They came to believe their doctors were holding back limited quantities of a cure, and attempted to take them hostage. They formed armies, congresses, religions; plotted rebellions, fomented treasons, practiced heresies.

Joe Hill

#2. The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that 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 can gain the truth.

Rob Bell

#3. extirp all errors, heresies, and other enormities and

Henry Bettenson

#4. For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. And

Alexander Hamilton

#5. In a dead religion there are no more heresies.

Andre Suares

#6. 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 are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies.

Peter Kreeft

#7. Dim or indistinct views of sin are the origin of most of the errors, heresies and false doctrines of the present day. If

J.C. Ryle

#8. The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

Saint John Chrysostom

#9. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right.

George Orwell

#10. Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation.

Lev Gumilev

#11. Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

Tertullian

#12. The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

Aleister Crowley

#13. Let us never forget that truth, distorted and exaggerated, can become the mother of the most dangerous heresies.

J.C. Ryle

#14. There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christianity, is never included in the list of heresies and schisms.

Soren Kierkegaard

#15. Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen.

Dan Simmons

#16. If the gospel is reduced because of our preferences or misunderstandings, we leave ourselves open to heresies and to attacking our brothers-in-arms.

Matt Chandler

#17. Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#18. Explanation. LaVey's Satan is the spirit of progress, the inspirer of all great movements that contribute to the development of civilization and the advancement of mankind. He is the spirit of revolt that leads to freedom, the embodiment of all heresies that liberate.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#19. I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.

Galileo Galilei

#20. Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon - and yet they will always survive.

George Orwell

#21. What if orthodoxy is the greatest of all heresies?

Daniel Thompson

#22. There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is in control of every individual thing that happens, every event, but that unfortunately the devil is in control of the timing.

Norman Rush

#23. Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching ... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.

Charles Spurgeon

#24. Rhode Island, a colony that the mainstream Puritans denounced as "a cesspool of vile heresies and irreligion,

Bernard Bailyn

#25. Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

H.G.Wells

#26. And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of Mohammet and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said

Christopher Columbus

#27. [Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#28. Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.

Ernst Cassirer

#29. It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.

George Henry Lewes

#30. It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

Charles Spurgeon

#31. The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

Umberto Eco

#32. History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#33. For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!

William Shakespeare

#34. Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.

Andre Suares

#35. Christianity is the heresy of heresies, the underlying cause of the weakness, lethargy, sickness, and failure of the modern church.

Peter J. Leithart

#36. None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

Saint Augustine

#37. There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#38. Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

Thomas Hobbes

#39. The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

Jorge Luis Borges

#40. The only interesting ideas are heresies

Susan Sontag