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Quotes about Controversy

The modern world has rejected for the last three hundred years (after believing in it for the first sixteen hundred years), namely, the virgin birth of Jesus from His Mother, Mary, who is a virgin.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
- Stanley Hauerwas
The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Five members of the heretical sect of Quakers have been arrested, he says, smiling blandly, and more arrests are anticipated.
- Margaret Atwood
Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything.
- Anne Lamott
Various people at her church kept saying that she could be happy because she was going home to be with Jesus. This is the sort of thing that gives Christians a bad name. This, and the Inquisition. Sue wanted to open fire on them all. I think I encouraged this.
- Anne Lamott
We're heading into nut country today.
- John F. Kennedy
The Jesuit turned away, saying, sarcastically, "The Protestants are impenetrable rocks." "You are mistaken," said Kutnaur, "it is Christ that is the Rock, and we are firmly fixed upon Him.
- John Foxe
The pope. "I defy him, (quoth he), and all his detestable abomination: I will in no wise have to do with him.
- John Foxe
We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
- Ashley Montagu
I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.
- Maya Angelou