Quotes About Heresy

Too often, Muslims, especially females, who challenge certain widely accepted views are met with warnings to desist; that way, it is said, lies heresy, blasphemy, apostasy. Those who have appointed themselves the guardians of communal orthodoxy are particularly vigilant on matters concerned with women and gender – in part, because it is in these realms that the construction of Muslim identity in self-conscious opposition to a decadent West takes place.

pre-millennialism was the standard teaching by the church fathers, and ranges from about AD 70 with Papias to Lactantius about AD 285. Back in Egypt, however, the amillennial heresy was beginning to develop. About the year 190, Clement of Alexandria, Egypt, started teaching that some prophesies were fulfilled at the destruction of the Temple in AD 70. This later led to the development of the amillennial view.

The really dangerous people are not the great heretics and unbelievers, but the swarm of petty thinkers, the rationalizing intellectuals, who suddenly discover how irrational all religious dogmas are. Anything not understood is given short shrift, and the highest values of symbolic truth are irretrievably lost. What can a rationalist do with the dogma of the virgin birth, or with Christ's sacrificial death, or the Trinity?

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours.

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

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.

La moralización y la legalización del evangelio de la gracia de Dios es una pobre herejía que se trata de diseminar entre personas desilusionadas que se sienten defraudadas porque no han recibido lo que tampoco tienen razón de esperar.

The Abbot of Cîteaux was asked how they'd recognize the two hundred heretics among twenty thousand townspeople. He's said to have answered, 'Kill them all, God will know his own.'" Alex

Why did Paul warn us about heresy and false teaching if he saw a golden age ahead for the church in which the peril of false teaching is eliminated until a brief period of apostasy? He gave us this warning because he expected heresy and false teaching to plague Christ's church until the end of the age. We must be on our guard until the day of Christ Jesus.

I might simply be imagining things, but I do believe that in this parodying of heresy there exists a daring kind of wisdom that might also parody the grounds of orthodoxy.

Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.

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

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

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

A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

But then, what is belief? A thought lodges in the mind, will not out, preserves its freshness and colour and flexibility like the corpse of a saint: is this belief, or is it heresy?

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

In the fifteenth century the mere fact of owning and reading the Bible in English was presumptive evidence of 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.

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.