Top 213 Heresy Quotes & Sayings

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

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

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

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

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

Modern minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They no longer have difficulties with the Creed, but with her Commandments. The heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought, but of action.

I use some pretty radical harmonics at the beginning of 'Heresy.'

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

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

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

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

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

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

I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move. Wishing however, to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. (Quoted in Shea and Artigas 194)

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

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

It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to say that as a matter of history the development of doctrine has been largely a reaction on the Church's part to the attacks of heresy.

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.

In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.

The interesting thing about fake news and fake media is that it's a heresy against reality. Again, as a Catholic, I was taught that the greatest sin was heresy. Because not only are you a sinner, you are proselytizing and inviting other people into your sinful state through your heresy. You're a recruiter for your own fallen state. Donald Trump is a heretic against reality. Basically, he's lying for sport. He's inviting people into his heresy that there is no objective reality.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

Heresy makes for progress.

There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care.

What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

New truth is old heresy.

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

Avoiding the physical sciences due to the fear that they will lead to heresy is childish.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow.

Zionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy.

But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.

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.

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.

There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

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

But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine. How can we know what antiquity was except through the Church? ... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. ... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

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

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

A heretic can be tolerated. But a heresy cannot.

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