Quotes: Heresy

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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.

William Tyndale

English Bible translator and reformer

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Graham Greene

British writer, playwright and literary critic (1904-1991)

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.

Thomas Aquinas

Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church

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

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

American writer

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

James Joyce

Irish novelist and poet (1882-1941)

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

George Santayana

Spanish-American philosopher

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

Naguib Mahfouz

Egyptian writer (1911-2006)

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

Galileo Galilei

Italian polymath

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

Ludovico Ariosto

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

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