"Misbelief" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Cyprian do nothing prove your pretensed assertion; which is, that to the Church of Rome there could come no misbelief. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 • Various
... is one fact so remarkable as to claim special mention. How had it happened that the Catholic faith was considered throughout the West the mark of the Roman subject; and the Arian misbelief the mark of the Teuton invader and governor? Theodosius had put an end to the official Arianism of the East, which had so troubled the empire, and so attacked the Primacy in the period between Constantine and himself. During all that time the Arian heresy had no root in ...
— The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI - The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I • Thomas W. (Thomas William) Allies
... leave out the expression [Greek: ho Kyrios], which had been so unfairly pressed against them; and were contented to read,—'the second man [was] from heaven.' A calamitous exchange, truly. For first, (I), The text thus maimed afforded countenance to another form of misbelief. And next, (II), It necessitated a further change in 1 ...
— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon
... Barabas, although thou art in misbelief, And wilt not see thine own afflictions, Yet let thy daughter be ...
— The Jew of Malta • Christopher Marlowe
... power than others had. Many years before I knew her it happened one spring that the ducks, which were a part of her charge, failed to lay eggs.... She at once took it for granted that the ducks had been bewitched. This misbelief involved very shocking consequences, for it necessitated the idea that so diabolical an act could only be combated by diabolical cruelty. And the most diabolical act of cruelty she could imagine was that of baking ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer |
