(34 quotes found)
“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.”
Swami Vivekananda
“Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.”
Galileo Galilei
“There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.”
James Joyce
“They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion”
Thomas Hobbes
“The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.”
John Ruskin
“All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak”
“Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.”
Graham Greene
“Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action -- *four* counts. Do you confess?Wilde: I don't understand what I'm accused of. Ximinez: Ha! Then we'll make you understand! Biggles! Fetch...THE CUSHIONS!Biggles: Here they are, lord.Ximinez: Now, old lady -- you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of heresy, reject the works of the ungodly -- *two* last chances. And you shall be free -- *three* last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.Wilde: I don't know what you're talking about.Ximinez: Right! If that's the way you want it -- Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions!Ximinez: Confess! Confess! Confess!Biggles: It doesn't seem to be hurting her, lord.Ximinez: Have you got all the stuffing up one end?Biggles: Yes, lord.”
Monty Python
