The Great Heresies Quotes

“The Modern Attack will not
tolerate us. It will attempt to
destroy us. Nor can we
tolerate it. We must attempt
to destroy it as being the
fully equipped and ardent
enemy of the Truth by which
men live. The duel is to the
death.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies

“Christian Europe should be
by nature one; but it has
forgotten its nature in
forgetting its religion.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies

“Like most modern words, “Heresy” is used both vaguely and diversely. It is used vaguely because the modern mind is as averse to precision in ideas as it is enamored of precision in measurement. It is used diversely because, according to the man who uses it, it may represent any one of fifty things.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies

“Either we of the faith shall
become a small persecuted,
neglected island amid
mankind, or we shall be able
to life up at the end of the
struggle the old battle cry,
“Christus Imperat!”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies

“A man going uphill may be at the same level as another man going down hill; but they are facing different ways and have different destinies. Our world, passing out of the old Paganism of Greece and Rome towards the consummation of Christendom and a Catholic civilization from which we all derive, is the very negation of the same world leaving the light of its ancestral religion and sliding back into the dark.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies

“But there is (as the greatest of the ancient Greeks discovered) a certain indissoluble Trinity of Truth, Beauty and Goodness. You cannot deny or attack one of these three without at the same time denying or attacking both the others. Therefore with the advance of this new and terrible enemy against the Faith and all that civilization which the Faith produces, there is coming not only a contempt for beauty but a hatred of it; and immediately upon the heels of this there appears a contempt and hatred for virtue.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies

“We are what we are today mainly because no one of those heresies finally overset our ancestral religion, but we are also what we are because each of them profoundly affected our fathers for generations, each heresy left behind its traces, and one of them, the great Mohammedan movement, remains to this day in dogmatic force and preponderant over a great fraction of territory which was once wholly ours.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies

“Human society cannot carry on without some creed, because a code and a character are the
product of a creed.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies

“Human society cannot carry on without some creed, because a code and a character are the product of a creed.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies