Quotes about Apostasy
A lack of this complete submission to the will of God, and a failure to realize that our salvation can only be worked out by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit forming the very life of Christ within the redeemed heart, has placed the Christian church today in the same apostasy that characterized the Jewish nation.
— William Law
A ministry devoid of spiritual gifts is a sufficient evidence of a church under a degenerating apostasy.
— John Owen
And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
— Judges 8:33
At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another,
— Matthew 24:10
and then have fallen away—to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to open shame.
— Hebrews 6:6
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
— Jeremiah 2:19
In this time of well-nigh universal apostasy, God calls upon His messengers to proclaim His law in the spirit and power of Elias.
— Ellen White
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
— Origen
it may appear that what the liberal theologian has retained after abandoning to the enemy one Christian doctrine after another is not Christianity at all, but a religion which is so entirely different from Christianity as to be long in a distinct category.
— J. Gresham Machen
The Scriptures, beginning with the Book of Judges, teach a philosophy of human government, which you will find was true of God's people and which has been true of every nation. The first step in a nation's decline is religióus apostasy, a turning from the living and true God. The second step downward for a nation is moral awfulness. The third step downward is political anarchy.
— J. Vernon McGee
Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence.
— Billy Graham
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
— Galatians 3:1