Heresy Quotes

• 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

  Christian, Men, Church

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.847, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Desire, Liberty

  Saint John Chrysostom, William John Copeland (1840). “Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians: And Homilies on the Epistle to the Ephesians, of S. John Chrysostom ...”, p.81

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• Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Coffins, Orthodoxy, Cradle

  Robert Green Ingersoll “Heretics and Heresies: From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Men, Hands, Wish

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

  H. G. Wells

  Truth, Lying, Men

  H. G. Wells (2000). “Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church”, p.15, Book Tree

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• By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Ignorance, Orthodoxy, Identifying

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• All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.109, BookBaby

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• If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Growth, Essentials, Literature

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• Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy

  Tertullian

  Philosophy

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.462, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

  Truth, Believe, Men

  Frederic W. Farrar (2003). “History of Interpretation: Bampton Lectures, 1885”, p.16, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Scary, Reason

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas, 1485.

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• It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

  Galileo Galilei

  Believe, Soul, Orthodox

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• O heresy in fair, fit for these days,
  A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Generosity, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.69

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• [Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Self, Essentials, Denial

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• In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

  Learned Hand

  Running, Risk, Ends

  Oliver Wendell Holmes lecture at Harvard in 1958. "The Rhetoric of Our Times" by J. Jeffery Auer, p. 124, 1969.

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• The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

  Helen Keller

  Women, Memorable, Democracy

  Helen Keller (2013). “Optimism: An Essay”, p.19, The Floating Press

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• From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Jealousy, Lord, Orthodox

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• They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Leviathan, Opinion, Orthodox

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 1, ch. 11

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• Progress, this great heresy of decay.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Progress, Decay, Literature

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Humility, Fate

  "The Coming of Age of 'The Origin of Species' " (1880)

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  If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Sunset, Thought Provoking

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  The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

  James Joyce

  Philosophy, Religion, Atheism

  Letter to Augusta Gregory on November 22, 1902. "James Joyce". Book by Richard Ellmann, 1959.

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• Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Soul, Impossible

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

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• Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

  George Santayana

  Design, Individuality, Hobbies

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