Quotes about Misconceptions
Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
— Wendell Berry
I thought Christians were walking idiots.
— Josh McDowell
C. S. Lewis depicts another source of our misconceptions about Heaven: naturalism, the belief that the world can be understood in scientific terms, without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations.
— Randy Alcorn
The weariness and serenity of the churches just now make it a good time to study the prophets and get rid of tired misconceptions. The dominant conservative misconception, evident in manifold bumper stickers, is that the prophet is a fortune-teller, a predictor of things to come (mostly ominous), usually with specific reference to Jesus.
— Walter Brueggemann
Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.
— Marianne Williamson
That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
— CS Lewis
Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.
— Philip Yancey
I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
— Barbara Brown Taylor