90 Quotes About Heresy
- Author Meister Eckhart
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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!
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- Author Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
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The most prominent members of civilizations are saints, heroes, and geniuses. The most prominent members of anti-civilizations are heretics, dictators, and sophists. The most prominent members of pseudo-civilizations are “trendsetters”, ”entertainers”, and “public intellectuals”.
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- Author Robert Chad Canter
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There were plenty of men who had received the Papacy and weren’t worthy of it. There were men such as Stephen VI, Benedict IX, John XII, Clement V, Sixtus IV, Leo X, Alexander VI, and others. These were men who had taken the throne of Saint Peter and turned it into a couch of corruption, greed, dissipation, blood, violence, incest, and heresy.
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- Author John C. Polanyi
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Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
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- Author S.J. Parris
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It is strange the way that someone who wants to find you guilty can start to make you believe in your own guilt, even when you know you are innocent. I was afraid I would condemn myself my mistake.
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- Author Thomas Gold
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In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
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- Author Eusebius
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I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit: I was able to refute them for myself and loathe them even more.
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- Author John Piper
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Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.
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- Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.
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