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The heretics have not thought and suffered and died in vain. Every heretic has been, and is, a ray of light.
Heretics and Heresies (1874)
Why should man be afraid to think, and why should he fear to express his thoughts?
Heretics and Heresies (1874)
Without heresy there could have been no progress.
Heretics and Heresies (1874)
Whoever has an opinion of his own, and honestly expresses it, will be guilty of heresy. Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak.
Heretics and Heresies (1874)
Heresy extends the hospitalities of the brain to a new thought.
Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy, a coffin.
Heretics and Heresies (1874)
By this time the whole world should know that the real Bible has not yet been written, but is being written, and that it will never be finished until the race begins its downward march, or ceases to exist.
Heretics and Heresies (1874)
Every church pretends that it has a revelation from God, and that this revelation must be given to the people through the church; that the church acts through its priests, and that ordinary mortals must be content with a revelation — not from God — but from the church.
Heretics and Heresies (1874)
I do not say, and I do not believe, that Christians are as bad as their creeds. In spite of church and dogma, there have been millions and millions of men and women true to the loftiest and most generous promptings of the human heart.
Heretics and Heresies (1874)
How long, O how long will mankind worship a book? How long will they grovel in the dust before the ignorant legends of the barbaric past? How long, O how long will they pursue phantoms in a darkness deeper than death?
Heretics and Heresies (1874)
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.
Heretics and Heresies (1874)