Top Heretics Quotes

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 m...

It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the...

Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every ag...

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed. The truth is that the trumpet of true Christianity, the challenge of the charities and simplicities...

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.

One notorious named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses—'may his name be forgotten...

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic