Pastoral Resources

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.

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

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

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

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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