Quotes About Apostasy

#1. In the Arab world, at any rate, to doubt the traditional account of Islam's origins has been to risk death threats, prosecution for apostasy, or even defenestration.61

Tom Holland

#2. Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

R.C. Sproul

#3. A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

Matthew Henry

#4. When apostasy comes, it is because the spirit of revelation departs from us. The wire is broken between us and the source of truth. We cannot understand, though truth be spoken, since we are not possessed of the spirit of truth. We misunderstand and misinterpret.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#5. Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

Norman G. Finkelstein

#6. Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.

Francis Schaeffer

#7. I see apostasy in many ways occurring in Evangelical churches that really aren't teaching the truth of God's word. I do believe that some churches have become entertainment centers and a teaching a type of prosperity Gospel rather than teaching God's word.

Robert Jeffress

#8. Nothing disfigures the intellectual's public
performance as much as trimming, careful silence, patriotic bluster, and retrospective and self-dramatizing apostasy.

Edward Said

#9. Men had made, we believe, fundamental changes in the doctrines, purposes, and practices of the Pristine Gospel and Church. There had been an apostasy, or a falling away from the true character of Christ's teachings in the centuries which followed the Apostolic age.

Lowell L. Bennion

#10. It was as if his apostasy from the faith of his fathers, filling him with the fiery zeal of the convert, and particularly of the convert to heresy, had blinded him to every other element in the gigantic self-delusion of civilized man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment Islam wouldn't exist today.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#12. I wish I could claim I faced my first day of apostasy with courage and certainty. Yet in truth, I had never felt more afraid.

David Ebershoff

#13. Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.

Michael Horton

#14. I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death.

Robert Cailliau

#15. You cannot take death for apostasy seriously and be working for peace.

Sam Harris

#16. Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence.

Billy Graham

#17. Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.

John R. Rice

#18. Sometimes there is a thin line separating orthodox zeal from apostasy,' said Father Lenar Hoyt

Dan Simmons

#19. We sometimes look among our numbers to find one to whom we can point who agrees with us, so we can have company to justify our apostasy. We rationalize by saying that someday the Church doctrine will catch up with our way of thinking. Truth is not established by Gallup polls.

Ezra Taft Benson

#20. Lowering the Lord's standards to the level of a society's inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

Lynn G. Robbins

#21. There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience ...

John Owen

#22. Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.

Ali Gomaa

#23. Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. The particular creature we love is never God's rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#25. We have to start with the little babies who are born now, socialize them in freedom and critical thinking. We don't have to throw away their faith. People confuse the two, thinking if you are enlightened that means apostasy. It doesn't.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#26. The Bible is clear: amnesia produces apostasy.

Dale Ralph Davis

#27. To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

Fulton J. Sheen

#28. The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.

John Stott

#29. In Islam, it is the "moderate" who is left to split hairs,
because the basic thrust of the doctrine is undeniable: convert, sub-
jugate, or kill unbelievers; kill apostates; and conquer the world.

Sam Harris

#30. If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.

Paul Berman

#31. If a man says he is Christian, yet he has no problems knocking you up, having premarital sex or living in sin with you, then you have to ask yourself, What version of Christ does he believe in?

Shannon L. Alder

#32. People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

Zakir Naik

#33. Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home

Bangambiki Habyarimana