Top 30 Heresy Quotes

Whom do you speak to about introducing a leap year? Is it heresy to request such a thing? Why do the Jews have one and we don’t?

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

There’s a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.

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

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

The United Kingdom has committed the heresy of breaking the chains of the E.U. This is a signal victory for democracy. It is a slap in the face to the European system which was increasingly based on fear, blackmail, and lies.

Very few editors worry about heresy – their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

If it squares with the Scripture, then let’s go. If it’s in conflict with the Scripture, then it’s heresy.

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as ‘heresy’ in the churches.

Avoiding the physical sciences due to the fear that they will lead to heresy is childish.

There are people who think I’m a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don’t care.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.

I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

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.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

I use some pretty radical harmonics at the beginning of ‘Heresy.’

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

If forgers and 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.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a ‘crank.’

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.