#heresy

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#heresy #leprosy #poverty #faith

The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell. For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt. ↗

— William Blake

#heresy #life

Heresy kicks ass. ↗

— P.S. Baber

#religion #religion

Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#religion #truth #religion

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

#any #came #confirm #council #days

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

— Learned Hand

#end #heresy #in the end #risk #run

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

— Eric Hoffer

#heresy #only #spring #system #vigor

All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere! (Linus) ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#la-la-land #naivete #religion #religion

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

— Ludovico Ariosto

#deliver #frenzy #good #good lord #heresy

Progress, this great heresy of decay. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#great #heresy #progress