Heresy Quotes

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

If forgers and other malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days.

Freedom of speech is freedom to offend.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

When you hear Allah's verses being rejected and mocked at by people, you must not sit with them till they start talking of other things.

[Martin] Luther was guilty of two great crimes. He struck the Pope in his crown and the monks in their bellies.

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

Not one of us has betrayed his God or his country. I do confess my guilt, which consists in having, to my shame and dishonor, suffered myself, through the pain of torture and the fear of death, to give utterance to falsehoods imputing scandalous sins and iniquities to an illustrious Order, which hath nobly served the cause of Christianity. I disdain to seek a wretched and disgraceful existence by engrafting another lie upon the original falsehood.

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

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

Every innovation is misguidance, even if the people see it as something good.

I've got a pretty iconoclastic attitude about all institutions myself. And I just think the church was corrupted right after Christ was killed.

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, … condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.

We are bound to be diligently watchful after the manner of a vigilant Shepherd and to ensure most carefully that certain people who consider the study of the truth beneath them should be driven out of the sheepfold of Christ and no longer continue to disseminate error from positions of authority. We refer in particular to those who in this age, impelled by their sinfulness and supported by their cunning, are attacking with unusual learning and malice the discipline of the orthodox Faith, and who, moreover, by perverting the import of Holy Scripture, are striving to rend the unity of the Catholic Church and the seamless tunic of the Lord.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.