Definition of Heresy

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Heresy

An opinion held in opposition to the established or commonly received doctrine, and tending to promote a division or party, as in politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; -- usually, but not necessarily, said in reproach.

Religious opinion opposed to the authorized doctrinal standards of any particular church, especially when tending to promote schism or separation; lack of orthodox or sound belief; rejection of, or erroneous belief in regard to, some fundamental religious doctrine or truth; heterodoxy.

An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained.

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Heresy Quotations

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

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

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.
Swami Vivekananda

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.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

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

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

Progress, this great heresy of decay.
Charles Baudelaire

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

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

Heresy Translations

heresy in Dutch is ketterij
heresy in German is Ketzerei
heresy in Italian is eresia
heresy in Norwegian is kjetteri

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