Quotes with heresy

  • A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

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  • Eric Hoffer A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • John Milton A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Graham Greene Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy - when properly aged.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Elie Wiesel The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • James Joyce There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Brooks Atkinson We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Ben Hecht When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Helen Keller The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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