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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; it
was 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

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. — Galileo Galilei

What if orthodoxy is the greatest of all heresies? — Daniel Thompson

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

Nothing changes in a true, God-lasting way when we use people or push agendas or make finger-pointing arguments or accusations of heresy. — Sarah Bessey

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,

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter. — Joseph Goebbels

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

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other. — Blaise Pascal

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy. — Frank Herbert

Most new ideas are branded as heresy, until a time when, either
through science or technology, they can be proven as truth. — S.E. Meyer

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

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. — Eric Hoffer

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

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it. — 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

If the cross of Christ, the nails, spear, and crown of thorns are to be honoured, then why not honour Judas's lips, if only they could be found? — Anne Hudson

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

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. — Voltaire

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 worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. — Lord Acton

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

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one. — Bruce Tate

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 the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. — Learned Hand

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

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians. — H.G.Wells

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. — A.W. Tozer

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned. — Giordano Bruno

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

[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

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out. — Lu Xun

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

[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