Quotes about Controversy

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

Five members of the heretical sect of Quakers have been arrested, he says, smiling blandly, and more arrests are anticipated.

Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything.

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.

We're heading into nut country today.

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.

The pope. "I defy him, (quoth he), and all his detestable abomination: I will in no wise have to do with him.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.