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  • The interesting thing about fake news and fake media is that it's a heresy against reality. Again, as a Catholic, I was taught that the greatest sin was heresy. Because not only are you a sinner, you are proselytizing and inviting other people into your sinful state through your heresy. You're a recruiter for your own fallen state. Donald Trump is a heretic against reality. Basically, he's lying for sport. He's inviting people into his heresy that there is no objective reality.

    Sports   Lying   Reality  
    Source: www.chicagotribune.com
  • 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.

    Money   Blessing   People  
    "A child of the century".
  • Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

    Sides   May   Orthodoxy  
    Blaise Pascal (1731). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious Subjects: Written Originally in French”, p.183
  • In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself in the eyes of the bourgeois of the sin of writing, for literature is, in essence, heresy. The situation has not changed except that it is now the Communists, that is, the qualified representatives of the proletariat, who as a matter of principle regard the writer as suspect.

    Writing   Eye   Order  
  • In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.

    Exercise   Age   Church  
  • Americans are an "almost chosen people," which is meant to suggest that there are clear parallels, literal, theological and everything else, between the American story and the Old Testament story of Israel and then the broader story of the Christian church. It's OK to recognize the parallels. It's OK to invoke them. But, you have to keep that "almost" in front of the "chosen." You can't go all the way and say, "America is Israel, America is the Church." That's where I think patriotism shades into, what I call, the heresy of nationalism.

    Source: www.christianpost.com
  • Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer to the question, ‘What is God like?’ and goes on from there. Though she may continue to cling to a sound nominal creed, her practical working creed has become false. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is; and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind

    Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.7, Fig
  • Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious of sorrow and happiness - that is perfect virtue. One, without change - that is perfect repose. Without any obstruction - that is the perfection of the unconditioned. Holding no relations with the external world, - that is perfection of the negative state. Without blemish of any kind, - that is the perfection of purity.

    Hate   Heart   Loss  
  • I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.

  • History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

    Truth   Humility   Fate  
    "The Coming of Age of 'The Origin of Species' " (1880)
  • It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

    Fear   May   Judgment  
    "Giordano Bruno: His Life and Thought". Book by Dorothea Waley Singer, 1950.
  • Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power.

    Fire   Giving   Long  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.119, Library of Alexandria
  • O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

    William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.69
  • Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

    Men   Race   Ideas  
  • ... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.

    Believe   Men   Ideas  
    Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”
  • But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

    1963 'Natur undGnade' in Fragen derTheologieHeute (translated by DinahWharton as Nature and Grace,1963).
  • I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

    Witty   Learning   Dinner  
    William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.181
  • There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.

    Journey   Dogma   Wander  
  • The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

    Helen Keller (2013). “Optimism: An Essay”, p.19, The Floating Press
  • Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.

  • Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability; that in all charity may flourish, and truth may live. For our own Church, that what is lacking in it may be supplied; what is unsound, corrected; that all Heresies, Schisms, Scandals, as well public as private, may be removed. Correct the wandering, convert the unbelieving, increase the faith of the Church, destroy Heresies, discover the crafty enemies, crush the violent.

    Crush   Catholic   Unity  
    Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press
  • Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy, or proposed to worship any other God that they should kill him; and suppose that afterward this same God took upon himself flesh, and came to this very chosen people and taught a different religion, and that thereupon the Jews crucified him; I ask you, did he not reap exactly what he had sown? What right would this god have to complain of a crucifixion suffered in accordance with his own command?

    Men   Law   People  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.437, Library of Alexandria
  • Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

    Men   Noise   Size  
  • The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

    Military   Moving   Sea  
  • There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.

    John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.61
  • I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one making the statement in danger of excommunication by the scientific theocracy. Nevertheless, in recent years I have investigated the story of the unidentified flying object (UFO), and I am no longer able to dismiss the idea lightly.

    Years   Ideas   Flying  
  • Religion is induced insanity.

  • The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.

    "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.
  • It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.

    Wise   Men   Often Is  
    "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.
  • The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.

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