90 Quotes About Heresy
- Author Thomas Henry Huxley
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History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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- Author D.R. Silva
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People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.
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- Author Robert G. Ingersoll
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Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It is the perpetual New World, the unknown sea, toward which the brave all sail. It is the eternal horizon of progress.Heresy extends the hospitalities of the brain to a new thought.Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy, a coffin.
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- Author Ernest Hemingway
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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure that you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
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- Author Salman Rushdie
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[H]as it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?"[1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor' (Columbia University / The New York Times, December 12, 1991)]
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- Author Criss Jami
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Heresy would like to think of itself as 'invented Truth'. But of course, all Reason and Logic would agree that no man can ever create Truth; he can only discover it. If heresy were ever at all beneficial, God would use it really to bring one right back to Truth, as countless 'inventions' have brought men to discovery.
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- Author Daniel Thompson
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What if orthodoxy is the greatest of all heresies?
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- Author Morris Berman
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Love denied, and the somatic experience of that denial, is─as de Rougemont recognized─the hidden, and gnostic/heretical, thread of Western History.
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- Author Frank Herbert
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As with all priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy.
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