Quote by John Milton
A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only

A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. – John Milton

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men the rest love not freedom, but licence. – John Milton

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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. – Aleister Crowley

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For my name and memory I leave to mens charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. – Francis Bacon

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The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy — when properly aged. – Hubert Humphrey

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I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right….Dead, but right. – Edward R. Murrow

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