Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, … condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.

The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon

The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.

A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.

There is no food closer to my heart than cheese. In fact, according to my doctor, it has nearly filled my aorta.

In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.

I saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, the same yesterday and today and forever.

The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.

The purpose of having the title 'World-Teacher' is to acknowledge, to show, the condition of mind and heart when you have achieved. It is like saying: 'I have painted a picture'. It is like saying: 'I have written a poem'. It is an assertion of the fact of attainment, rather than the narrow understanding that is given to labels and phrases. What the phrase indicates is of importance.

The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

Thieves, Heretics, and Whores

I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.

One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching.

Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.