Top 97 Heretic Quotes
#1. 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.
Seth Godin
#2. 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.
Sun Myung Moon
#3. When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
Marie Corelli
#4. In the beginning, Orion was not considered to be a hunter but as the heretic cult grew, its adherent dared to war the upper heavens and were set off on a quest for hunting the lion (i.e., Sphinx) in its own dwelling. This is literally what 'Orion' the word means, the 'dwelling of the lion'.
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#5. They drew a line that shut me out,
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout!
But love and I had the wit to win
We drew a circle and brought them in.
Edwin Markham
#6. 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
Benjamin Franklin
#7. O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.
Mansur Al-Hallaj
#8. I suppose we were heretic,' he thinks out loud, But, Sandro, you're not dead ... '
'There's no time here,' the painter replied, 'Everyone who will ever die is already here.'
'Then Dante really got it wrong.'
'He knows.'
'He's in Hell too?'
'He visits on Sundays.
Emma Iadanza
#9. I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.
Albert Einstein
#10. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not
destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture
his inner mind, we reshape him.
George Orwell
#11. Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.
Jack Nicholson
#12. Some people think I'm a mycological heretic, some people think I'm a mycological revolutionary, and some just think I'm crazy.
Paul Stamets
#13. Christianity ... made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter ...
M. M. Mangasarian
#14. 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
#16. A defrocked heretic accountant, Grimm had learned just enough mathemagics to be a nuisance, if not actually dangerous, and had been thrown out of the Accountants' Guild for unethical use of imaginary numbers.
Simon R. Green
#17. 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
Edwin Markham
#18. 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.
Robert M. Pirsig
#19. I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.
Steven Pinker
#20. When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
George Bernard Shaw
#21. I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan B. Anthony, U.S. reformer and suffragist
George Washington
#22. The first step in identifying "heresy" is to refuse all identifications with the subjective intuitions and experience of the "heretic," and to see his words only in an impersonal realm in which there is no dialogue - in which dialogue is denied a priori.
Thomas Merton
#23. Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. In the purely historical universe that they
have chosen, rebellion and revolution end in the same dilemma: either police rule or insanity.
Albert Camus
#24. If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
Joseph Addison
#25. Sometimes I feel like the sane person in a community of the mad; sometimes I feel like the one blind man where all others see; the one groping savage in the college of the learned, and always, during service, I feel like a heretic in heaven.
Mark Twain
#26. A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Frederic Farrar
#27. One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.
Ellis Peters
#28. No one is a man of learning unless he is also a heretic and a madman, and above all , aggressively perverse.
Francesco Petrarca
#29. Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.
Louis De Montfort
#30. 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.
Louis Agassiz
#31. The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. ("Tomorrow")
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#32. I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic. Who knows but men will reduce me from the profession of a philosopher to that of historian of the Inquisition!
Galileo Galilei
#33. Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus
#34. Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#35. I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
Meister Eckhart
#36. Wrong. This was wrong. A list of words raced through his head. Apostate, heretic, pagan.
Witch.
Laura Oliva
#37. False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#38. Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.
Jay Griffiths
#39. 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.
Pope Pius IV
#40. Hen Maistre adopts Bossuet's bold idea that "the heretic is he who has personal
ideas" - in other words, ideas that have no reference to either a social or a religious tradition - he provides
the formula for the most ancient and the most modern of conformities.
Albert Camus
#41. Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.
Charles Spurgeon
#42. The system of Christian celebrity was not a good space for me, and it was brutal on my kids - my son in college was frequently confronted by people railing against me as a heretic.
Erwin McManus
#44. Flesh is heretic.
My body is a witch.
I am burning it.
Eavan Boland
#45. 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.
Antony Jay
#46. A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
William Cowper
#47. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#48. For a brazen Libertine, an adulterer, a sodomite, an atheist, a fornicator, rakehell, heretic, godless playmaker and debaucher of innocents, you're a sorry state of affairs.
Elizabeth Bear
#49. I have an opinion about holy war, which in general I must keep to myself. I have no wish to be known as a heretic. It is ... that if a war can be holy, then God cannot. At best a war can only be necessary.
Louis De Bernieres
#50. The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that's impossible to put down until you've reached the last page. An absolute triumph!
Tasha Alexander
#52. Excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Jorge did
Umberto Eco
#53. THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives it a fresh, new perspective-moving us through a wrenching gamut of emotions as she does so. A searing look at one of the worst periods in our history.
Anita Shreve
#54. 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.
Walter Kaufmann
#55. 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.
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#56. It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
Ted Cruz
#58. You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic.
Vic S. Sussman
#59. Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.
Baruch Spinoza
#60. 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.
Martin Luther
#61. Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that holy holiday - opened her soft blue eyes on this mundane sphere.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#63. The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
George Bernard Shaw
#64. Heretic ... is a person who seizes upon a truth and pushes it to the point at which it becomes a falsehood.
T. S. Eliot
#65. 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.
Charles Spurgeon
#66. The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.
Sydney J. Harris
#67. Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#68. The heretic is the one who speaks against the community from a place within its territory. He is the enemy within. The heathen, by contrast, is safely behind the walls, excluded by his own invincible arrogance.
Roger Scruton
#69. If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound
#70. The heretic was brought before the Supreme Judge unrestrained, there was no fear that he would flee. The room in which the heretic now stood was thoroughly secured, although the man had no intention of trying to escape anyhow.
Dennis B. Boyer
#71. They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
Desiderius Erasmus
#72. As the voice of their priests chanting, 'In Racism we Trust' and their applause gets louder, I find myself in a limbo of conscience, out of my depth, just an exhausted heretic, in a purgatory, yet denying submission.
Asaad Almohammad
#73. Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus
#74. in the ballroom of the Metropol Hotel on the twenty-first of June 1926, was the heretic, Galileo of Galilei, vindicated by a ping, a splat, a smash, a thunk, a thump, and a thud. Of
Amor Towles
#75. But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.
George Bernard Shaw
#76. 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.
Sheri S. Tepper
#77. Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.
Harlan Ellison
#78. In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.
Richard B. Garnett
#79. That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
Aubrey Menen
#80. If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
Maajid Nawaz
#81. The precursor of copyright law served to force the identification of the author so that he could be punished if he proved to be a heretic or a revolutionary
James Boyle
#82. She laughed at herself when she saw that she had expected to be at once a heretic and a returned hero; she was very reasonable and merry about it; and it hurt just as much as ever.
Sinclair Lewis
#83. It would cause nothing but madness, Thomas thought. Men would fight for it, lie for it, cheat for it, betray for it and die for it. The Church would make money from it. It would cause nothing but evil, he thought, for it stirred horror from men's hearts,
Bernard Cornwell
#85. In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Thomas Gold
#86. Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.
Saint Augustine
#87. 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.
Amir Taheri
#89. Our God is a three-part being (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). Mark T. Barclay-The Missing Red Letters
Mark T. Barclay
#90. The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.
Rachel Hartman
#91. Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.
John Calvin
#92. I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right ... Dead, but right.
Edward R. Murrow
#93. Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn."
"That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realize it's a lie.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#94. Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol. All who worship him are abominable idolaters and Christ did not rise again from death to life nor did he ascend into heaven.
Matthew Hammond
#95. I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
Giordano Bruno
#96. Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
Learned Hand
#97. 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.
Alfred H. Barr Jr.
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