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Quotes About Heresy

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
~ George Santayana
Una de las ironías de las religiones en la Modernidad es que incluso hacen de lo absoluto una opción. Incluso aquellos que luchan por lograr la ortodoxia no escapan al imperativo herético, porque la verdadera creencia también depende de una elección (hairesis) a su favor.
~ Peter Sloterdijk
This is how foreign grace was to her, that when she heard it she mistook it for heresy. There are some people, I am sorry to say, who wouldn't recognize grace if it stood at their door wearing a name tag.
~ Philip Gulley
Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.
~ Joseph Campbell
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
~ Abraham Isaac Kook
The world once had real problems with heretics splitting the Church and infidels at the gates of Vienna. What real benefit was the discovery of America?" "None to the inhabitants thereof," Cannon admitted. "And its mineral wealth wrecked half the economies of Europe and financed endless wars." "In the end was it good for the world? You cannot price knowledge you haven't gained yet.
~ Dave Duncan
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to my church as a human being.
~ James Joyce
There is no heresy or philosophy so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
~ James Joyce
But if you believe that Jesus was wholly God, then to condemn His conduct is presumptuous. If you believe that He was not wholly God, but only partly or in some respects divine, you are a heretic. If you think He was not God at all, you are an infidel.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with daily life and thought.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Discharge, Shinjuku Thief, and Fleshcrawl before finally selecting Lust-mord. The dislocated, eldritch sounds of "Heresy, Part I
~ Douglas Preston
Too many consultants fall in love with their own methodology. Success in this business comes from marketing, not from the depth of consulting expertise. I know that this is heresy to many of you, but all the nonrainmaking consulting gurus are working for somebody else and merely earning a paycheck.
~ Alan Weiss
But the winners chose what we should believe in. They chose which writings were sacred and which ones were 'heretical.
~ Raymond Khoury
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
~ Galileo Galilei
Heresy no longer existed within religion; it was founded in the state.
~ Reinhart Koselleck
You know God does not manifest Himself," Halgan shouted. "That is also heresy. The Revelation is not corporeal. You know this. Why do you persist in this perverted speech?" "I like perverted. Maybe you would, too, if you gave it a chance." "Leave my men alone," Rakan said coldly. "Degenerate." Ringil smooched a kiss at him.
~ Richard K. Morgan
There were no state regulations about hairstyles or clothes. It was what everyone else was wearing that determined the rules of the day. And because the range was so narrow, people were always looking out for the tiniest variations. It was a real test of ingenuity to look different and attractive, and yet similar enough to everyone else so that nobody with an accusing finger could pinpoint what exactly was heretical.
~ Jung Chang
Petty theft, murder, forgery, arson, and the abduction of women were all capital offenses, so the death penalty for heresy was neither unusual nor extreme.50
~ Karen Armstrong
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
~ Saint Augustine
The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.
~ Cotton Mather
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