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ecf524b
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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heresy
freedom-of-thought
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Voltaire |
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67f6559
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The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.
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religion
iconoclasm
intuitive-ethics
sophistry
heresy
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William Blake |
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b98399d
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"But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong."
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heresy
orthodoxy
power
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Umberto Eco |
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6a2bbf4
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The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell. For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt.
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heresy
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William Blake |
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e86e526
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One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.
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labels
religion
stigma
heresy
sainthood
orthodoxy
dogma
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Ellis Peters |
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ed6f207
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The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
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poverty
leprosy
heresy
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Umberto Eco |
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3479ff2
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The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered it necessary to destroy others because they did not share the same beliefs. At worst, another man's belief might inspire amusement or contempt--the Egyptians and their animal gods, for instance. Yet those who worshipped the Bull did not try to murder those who worshipped the Snake, or to convert them by force from Snake to Bull. No evil ever entered the world quite so vividly or on such a vast scale as Christianity did.
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worship
christianity
evils-of-hatred
holy-war
priscus
heresy
hypocrisy
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Gore Vidal |
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17c551a
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Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
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inquisition
heresy
revolution
power
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Umberto Eco |
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4c368a7
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The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.
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fiction
heresy
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G.K. Chesterton |
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0db1689
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Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.
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doubt
greater
heresy
cynicism
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Frank Herbert |
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00ee58a
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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?" [
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religion
witch-hunts
intolerance
heresy
orthodoxy
freedom-of-thought
persecution
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Salman Rushdie |
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58b4b16
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Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.
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spiritual-leadership
heresy
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Alister E. McGrath |
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1ba404a
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He was feeling a new heresy coming over him, possibly as a result of the spirits, and it had something to do about the celibacy of the clergy. He had one already about the shape of his tonsure and the usual one about the date of Easter, as well as his of Pelagian business-but the latest was beginning to make him feel as if the presence of children was unnecessary.
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religion
heresy
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T.H. White |
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33b3f0f
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I say that many of these heresies, independently of the doctrines they assert, encounter success among the simple because they suggest to such people the possibility of a different life. I say that very often the simple do not know much about doctrine. I say that often hordes of simple people have confused Catharist preaching with that of the Patarines, and these together with that of the Spirituals. The life of the simple, Abo, is not illuminated by learning and by the lively sense of distinctions that makes us wise. And it is haunted by illness and poverty, tongue-tied by ignorance. Joining a heretical group, for many of them, is often only another way of shouting their own despair. You may burn a cardinal's house because you want to perfect the life of the clergy, but also because you believe that the hell he preaches does not exist.
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heresy
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Umberto Eco |
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25fd523
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Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe and what, in fact, they do believe, as demonstrated by their actions. A religion of brotherhood and mildness which daily murders those who disagree with its doctrines can only be thought hypocrite, or worse.
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christianity
athanasian
christian-hypocrisy
holy-war
arianism
brotherhood
julian
heresy
heretics
hypocrisy
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Gore Vidal |