#heretic

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#catholic #desperation #go #heaven #heretic

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today. ↗

— Yip Harburg

#heretics #heroes #conformity

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. ↗

— Albert Camus

#either #ends #every #heretic #oppressor

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people. ↗

— Mark Hatfield

#christ #christian #christian faith #claim #confuses

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

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#heretics #writers #writing #art

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#being #commits #error #errors #essential

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

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#heresy #heretics #literature #art

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”) ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#heresy #heretics #tolstoy #faith

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#bitter #entropy #heretics #human #human thought

I once saw the world’s ugliest baby drown. But then I realized, “That’s not a baby, that’s a log. And it’s not drowning, it’s burning.” I wonder what it did to deserve that? It was probably a heretic. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#burn #drown #funny #heretic #ugly