Quotes About Heresy

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

To some people independent though is heresy and critical thought blasphemy

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

Hereticorum sententias prodidisse est superasse—to have expounded the doctrines of heretics is to have overcome them, saith Hieron. Unfold them, or bring them and the word face to face, and, like Cain, they hang down their head; they are put to shame.

Say, as Austin in another case, 'Errare possum, hæreticus esse nolo—I may err, but I am re solved not to be a heretic.

The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.

To preach conservative heresy — making the rules stricter than they are, distorting doctrines through ignorance or narrowness, denying the Eucharist to those who have a right to receive it — is pretty safe. No one will complain to the bishop. But anyone who leans to the left is in danger of instant denunciation. There is a saying in the Vatican, "The right writes." The left fumes in silence. That is a sin against stewardship.

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.

Kill them all, for God knows His own.

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.

the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

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

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.

For many centuries Christians also believed in the idea of reincarnation, and it wasn't until the Second Council of Constantinople in A.D. 553 that reincarnation was officially declared a heresy and mention of it was stricken from public texts. The powers that be didn't like the idea of people getting infinite chances to get it right, because then you wouldn't need the church to offer you salvation.

The Pelagian heresy having taken deep root among the Christians in those parts, he so vigorously opposed that fatal, growing evil, as entirely to banish that hydra out of the church of the Picts

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

C'est une habitude constante de tous les schismes et de toutes les hérésies de quelque ordre que ce soit, de se présenter comme un retour à la pureté des origines.

When the identity of the community is understood in these terms, participation in any form of ethnic division or hatred becomes unthinkable, and ethnic division within the church becomes nothing other than a denial of the truth of the gospel. 'That is why racism is a heresy. One of the church's most urgent pragmatic tasks in the 1990s is to form communities that seek reconciliation across ethnic and racial lines.

A heresia e a blasfêmia persistiam como disfarces pomposos para oprimir a liberdade da palavra, a qual sempre escolhe assuntos que provocam implicitamente nos opressores um mal-estar secreto.

America, for Greene, was the great spiritual deception – the heresy of well-being.