Quotes about Controversy
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.
- Thomas Jefferson
It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.
- Girolamo Savonarola
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.
- Mark Twain
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
- GK Chesterton
This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.
- John Adams
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
- GK Chesterton
People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.
- Desmond Tutu
They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion—humanism.
- Ken Ham
No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
- Lyman Beecher
In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in public - or you risk being hauled into court.
- Charles Colson
Whoever pushes America's sex button must be prepared for sirens and alarms. Whatever else we do in our lives will be drowned out by them.
- Erica Jong
A hit dog will holler.
- Andrew Gillum