90 Quotes About Heresy
- Author G.K. Chesterton
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The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.
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- Author Richard Holloway
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Truth is rarely simple and seldom obvious, which is why mature institutions recognise the importance of conflict and disagreement. Christianity was born in conflict, and it has been characterised by conflict ever since. The Church's obsession with heresy is witness to this fact.
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- Author Alister E. McGrath
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Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.
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- Author Dan Simmons
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Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen.
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- Author Daniel Chanan Matt
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Heresy arises as a pained outcry to liberate us from this strange, narrow pit, to raise us from the darkness of letters and platitudes to the light of thought and feeling. Such heresy eventually takes its stand in the centre of morality. It has a temporary legitimacy, for it must consume the filthy froth clinging to mindless faith. [...........] On the desolate ruins wrought by heresy, the sublime knowledge of God wil build her temple.
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- Author Susan Sontag
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The only interesting ideas are heresies
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- Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
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What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.
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- Author Tertullian
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Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy
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- Author Robert Whiting
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Saying that positive thinking usually doesnt work is such heresy that I may be unceremoniously drummed out of the personal development field. And, it is mostly true.
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