Quotes on Heresy

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

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

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said - to the point of repletion, perhaps - that man is not to take his patterns from nature; but neither is he to waste himself in seeking to change her face.

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin.