Quotes about Heresy

New ideas are rightly suspect because they are often heretical. However, when biblical truths have been long neglected or ignored, attempts to present them may sound far-fetched. They may appear to be adding to or misinterpreting Scripture, when in fact they are simply portraying what Scripture has said all along but we've failed to grasp.

And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with daily life and thought.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

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.

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.