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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
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
— Martin Luther
Heresy no longer existed within religion; itwas founded in the state. — Reinhart Koselleck
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
took a triumphant breath. He had managed to make Korne fall into heresy. Now it would be easy
— Antonio Garrido
In a dead religion there are no more heresies.
— Andre Suares
That's what gets converts these days," Baron said. "It's a buyers' market in apocalypse. What's hot in heresy's Armageddon.
— China Mieville
Zionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy.
— Roger Garaudy
Truth in the heart of heresy
— The Doctor
There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.
— Duncan Campbell
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
O heresy in fair, fit for these days,A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. — William Shakespeare
New truth is old heresy.
— Steven J. Lawson
Heresy is fissiparous, however.
— David Mitchell
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
— Helen Keller
Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.
— Joseph Campbell
What if orthodoxy is the greatest of all heresies?
— Daniel Thompson
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.
— William Clay Ford Jr.
Belief that heresy was a form of intellectual stubbornness, the refusal to abandon a mistaken idea. In
— Donna Leon
Heresy kicks ass.
— P.S. Baber
Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
I say, if you hate cruelty, remember that nothing is so cruel in its consequences as the toleration of heresy!
— George Bernard Shaw
Heresy is the foe of countenance
— Ernest Hemingway,
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
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
— Henry David Thoreau
Christianity is the heresy of heresies, the underlying cause of the weakness, lethargy, sickness, and failure of the modern church.
— Peter J. Leithart
We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT.
— Theodore Kaczynski
It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is un-American.
— Erica Jong
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.
— Frank Herbert
Repression was the favored food of heresy.
— Greg Keyes
Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
— J.I. Packer
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'
— Stephen Hawking
The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.
— G.K. Chesterton
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
— John C. Polanyi
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
— Giordano Bruno
As with all priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy.
— Frank Herbert
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
— G.K. Chesterton
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.
— Ignatius Of Loyola
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.
— Edward Kasner
If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
— Randall Terry
I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.
— Brooks Atkinson
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.
— Paul Watzlawick
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
Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.
— D.R. Silva
Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.
— John Piper
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.
— Samuel Bowers
What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
— Graham Greene
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
— James Joyce
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
— Saint Augustine
When those who have the title of shepherd play the part of wolves," said Lothar of Saxony, "heresy grows in the garden of the Church.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.
— Michael Tsarion
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
— Margaret Deland
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.
— G.K. Chesterton
Progress, this great heresy of decay.
— Charles Baudelaire
Heresy and progress often look much alike.
— Joe Abercrombie
In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.
— Storm Jameson
The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.
— Theodore Parker
Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.
— A.W. Tozer
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
— George Bernard Shaw
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Heresy is just philosophy that the establishment doesn't approve of,
— Mary Jo Putney
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
— Ludovico Ariosto
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
The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
— Elie Wiesel
By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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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
The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy
— Theodor Adorno
Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy
— Louise Imogen Guiney
All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.
— Vincent Of Lerins
If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.
— Charles Bradlaugh
Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.
— Andre Suares
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
— George Santayana
People said - though this felt like a heresy - that they had seen Camille make Robespierre laugh.
— Hilary Mantel
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[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.
— John R.W. Stott
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
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy.
— Augustine Of Hippo