Heresy Quotes

“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”

“No kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.”

“A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject.”

“Wikipedia: Heresy”

“It is not necessary to seek truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church.”

“Heresies have never been more than particular opinions, since they began with five or six men.”

“Those who are intelligent are not ideologues. Those who are ideologues are not intelligent." (”

“Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not. It is so. It is not.”

“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.”

“Religions are kept alive by heresies, which are really sudden explosions of faith. Dead religions do not produce them.”

“History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”

“Science is in far greater danger from the absence of challenge than from the coming of any number of even absurd challenges.”

“Reason quite properly rejects contradiction, but rationalism abhors mystery, which every heresy attempts in its own way to resolve.”

“Thu hast translated the Romance of the Rose,
That is a heresy against my law,
And maketh wise folk from me withdraw.”

“''The worst kind of heretic is one who, teaching for the most part true Catholic doctrine, adds a word of heresy like a drop of poison in a glass of water.'''”

“In corporation religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.”

“Someone who believes in all the stories of the Baal Shem Tov and the other mystics and holy men is a fool; someone who doesn't believe them is a heretic.”

“Wherefore if forgers of money and other evil-doers are forthwith condemned to death by the secular authority, much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death.”

“All errors that have existed in the Christian Church from the beginning, proceeded from this source, that in some persons, ambition, and in others, covetousness, extinguished the true fear of God. A bad conscience is, therefore, the mother of all heresies...”

“The essence of the heretic, that is to say of someone who has a particular opinion, is that he clings to his own ideas; and the essence of the Catholic, that is to say of the universal, is to prefer to his sentiments the common sentiment of the entire Church.”