Henri de Lubac Quotes

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

If heretics be altogether uprooted by death, this is not contrary to Our Lord's command

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

The perversions of heresy, which has corrupted men throughout the ages, is constantly on the increase in Toulouse. We admonish your royal serenity most carefully ... and enjoin you for the omission of sins to arm yourself strongly and powerfully to root out such degenerate shoots ... You must eliminate such harmful filth ...

The Sparks: Refutation of Heretics and Innovators

The most potent combination is that of religion and politics, because then if you object, you are a heretic.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy, and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

The slayers of the heretics are the worst heretics of all.

If my son were to oppose the Catholic Church, I myself would carry the faggots to burn him.

Heretical—one which is contrary to Catholic truth. Erroneous—that which does not directly contradict the faith, but some conclusion evidently deducible from the faith. Savoring of heresy—not contradicting the faith by evident consequence, but by very probable and morally certain consequence. Ill-sounding—that which has a double sense, one Catholic and the other heretic, but usually accepted in the latter. Rash—that which is not governed by reason and lacks all authority. Scandalous or offensive to pious ears—that which gives occasion to another to err, such as ‘heretics are to be tolerated and not to be slain.’ Schismatic or seditious—tending to disrupt the unity of the Church. Impious—contrary to Catholic piety. Insulting—defamatory of some Christian profession or illustrious person. Blasphemous—insulting to God.

About twenty-four years ago the defendant commenced to annoy the churches of Germany with his errors and heresies, He printed a wretched book, which has infected many people He has not ceased by all means in his power to scatter his poison, as much by his construction of biblical text, as by certain annotations which he has made upon Ptolemy [He has claimed] that little children are sinless, and moreover are incapable of redemption until they come of age; that they do not commit mortal sin up to the age of twenty.

No orthodox church ever had power that it did not endeavor to make people think its way by force and flame.

Whosoever changes his religion [Islam] and deviates from it, award him the death sentence

In a country like ours, burdened with a history of several centuries of religious wars, the struggle for freedom of liberal thought has often been bitter.

I don't think it's cool for people to say, 'You shouldn't reference God because I don't believe that, and I don't want to hear it.' Well, there's a lot of stuff I don't believe that I still gotta hear.

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

The best religion is the most tolerant.

I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

I don't care what your religion is, as long as it doesn't chastise anybody that's not part of it.

I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.