Heresy Quotes
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
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.- Swami Vivekananda
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.- James Joyce
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.- Galileo Galilei
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.- John Ruskin
Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak- Robert Green Ingersoll
There is a continuing, mandatory need for heresy in its most profound sense; for freedom to choose and follow truth wherever it leads.- William Edelen
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.- Dr. Carl Sagan
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.- Learned Hand
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- St. Thomas Aquinas
A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.-Eric Hoffer
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.-Naguib Mahfouz
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.-Henry David Thoreau
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.Ludovico Ariosto
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.-George Santayana
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.-Graham Greene
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
If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.-Randall Terry
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.-Learned Hand
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.-Galileo Galilei
Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days.-William Tyndale
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.-Swami Vivekananda
O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.-Jan Hus
Progress, this great heresy of decay.-Charles Baudelaire
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.-Helen Keller
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.-James Joyce
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
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.-Chelsea Quinn Yarbro