Definition of Heretic

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Heretic

One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.

One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church."

Related Definitions:

And, Authority, Belief, Believe, By, Christian, Church, Contrary, Deliberately, Determined, Doctrine, Established, Faith, Having, Heresy, Made, More, Of, One, Or, Prevailing, Profession, Religion, Some, The, To, Universal, Who

Heretic Quotations

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
Martin Luther

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

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
Walter Kaufmann

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.
Sun Myung Moon

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Heretic Translations

heretic in Dutch is ketter
heretic in German is Ketzer
heretic in Hungarian is eretnek
heretic in Italian is eretico
heretic in Norwegian is kjetter
heretic in Spanish is hereje

Quotes