Quotes About Blasphemy

#1. Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.

Barry Hughart

#2. Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?

Kabir Bedi

#3. I do not permit blasphemy, the F-word, or obscenities such as soy milk at my table. Consider yourself chastised.

Dean Koontz

#4. Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#5. Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

Swami Vivekananda

#6. It is no blasphemy to say that every man creates the God creating him. We are facets of a work whose finished form we cannot imagine, though our imaginations, aided by grace, are the means - or at least one means - of its completion.

Christian Wiman

#7. Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20 billion. Let's just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season.

Jim Wallis

#8. I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith.

Stephen Fry

#9. It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

Ephrem The Syrian

#10. Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.

Pankaj Mishra

#11. Every great idea starts out as blasphemy.' If there is resistance, it means that the direction is right.

Adam Nergal Darski

#12. Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

T. S. Eliot

#13. There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.

Oleg Kulik

#14. As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.

Thomas Paine

#15. There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Paul Rudnick

#16. The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, nearly all our information concerning alternative forms of early Christianity came from the massive orthodox attacks upon them.

Elaine Pagels

#17. If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

Martin Luther

#18. Every little trifle for some reason does seem incalculably important today and when you say of a thing that "nothing hangs on it" it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing - how am I to put it? - which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it forever.

E. M. Forster

#19. Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

Ricky Gervais

#20. This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin ... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

Thomas Hobbes

#21. The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

Flannery O'Connor

#22. There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with the austerity of religion.

Ernest Hemingway,

#23. Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".

William C. Brown

#24. In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

Leo Tolstoy

#25. The idea of parts of the body public fighting each other was like the idea of a man's punching himself in the face. It was a physical blasphemy that suited this era as an index of how far it had all gone.

Paul Cornell

#26. People. Falling for each others' pretensions, fakeness and whatever various faces they can put on to wear. And then they call it love. What a fantasy. What a blasphemy. Humanity bores me.

C. JoyBell C.

#27. That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#28. Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

John Osborne

#29. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.

G.K. Chesterton

#30. I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

George Eliot

#31. This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#32. It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

King James I

#33. There is no answer to Auschwitz ... To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#34. There may be blasphemy and opposition to your calling, but you must continue fulfilling your calling

Sunday Adelaja

#35. I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Rick Moody

#36. Is this blasphemy, my lord?"
"I think not. Those who crafted me, be they gods or demons, crafted this mind that shapes my resistance to their schemes. Surely they were wise enough, at the wheel where I was thrown, to anticipate future resistance in the heart they were abuilding.

Tom Robbins

#37. Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life!

Sam Smith

#38. Wretched Girl, you must stay here with me! Here amidst these lonely Tombs, these images of Death, these rotting loathsome corrupted bodies! Here shall you stay, and witness my sufferings; witness, what it is to die in the horrors of despondency, and breathe the last groan in blasphemy and curses!

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#39. Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.

David Mamet

#40. Why, an' thou shouldst live a thousand years thou'dst never hear so masterful a cursing. Alack, her art died with her. There be base and weakling imitations left, but no true blasphemy.

Mark Twain

#41. You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, But I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

Dan Barker

#42. All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

Saint Basil

#43. The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

Martin Luther

#44. However, the religious extremists, especially the pro-Taliban organizations, they mobilized and instigated the Islamists to come on the streets and put pressure on the government to stop any reform on the blasphemy law.

Shahbaz Bhatti

#45. To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

Pope Francis

#46. I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea ... and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

Frank Herbert

#47. Ramsey made the mistake of guessing it didn't and shook his head, gaining him a scowl and a blasphemy from the cantankerous baron

Julie Garwood

#48. There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints will be labelled as heresy and blasphemy. Why? Because the society is built on religion - not freedom for all points of view.

Flemming Rose

#49. No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

Naguib Mahfouz

#50. Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Thomas Paine

#51. Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

Salman Rushdie

#52. The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.

Henry Adams

#53. There is an inherent blasphemy in seeking to add to what Christ Jesus in His dying moments declared to be finished,

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#54. Thus the blasphemy of the homosexual formula, for it denies Babalon and breeds devils in chaos.

Kenneth Grant

#55. Don't use his name as an oath, Vin,' Kelsier said. 'Even blasphemy honors him - when you curse by that creature's name, you acknowledge him as your god.

Brandon Sanderson

#56. You're the only person I know who can take communion despite not believing in God and not commit blasphemy. The only person I know.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#57. Just wear the tank top." "It's not meant to - " "Wearing something on top of that is a waste of your God-given gift of cleavage," he insisted. "It's practically blasphemy.

Molly Harper

#58. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

Herman Melville

#59. This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#60. I would much rather people kick and scream and tear their hair out and accuse me of all kinds of blasphemy, than just have no opinion whatsoever.

DJ Shadow

#61. On the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

Katha Pollitt

#62. our group was heading south, like a walking blasphemy.

Jean-Christophe Grange

#63. Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Leo Tolstoy

#64. Blasphemy is not an offence against truth, but the offence of truth against Priestcraft.

Philanthropos

#65. Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.

Annie Besant

#66. The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

Andre Gide

#67. I believe in my religion and in Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for the sins of mankind. What did your Prophet Mohammed ever do to save mankind? (as quoted from Asia Bibi sentenced to hang for anti-Muslim blasphemy)

Malala Yousafzai

#68. To Jewish audiences, worshiping a crucified man was blasphemy; it was about as kosher as pork sausages wrapped in bacon served to Jews for a jihad fundraiser.

Anonymous

#69. Quite suddenly she understood the impulse that caused men to engage in casual blasphemy.

Diana Gabaldon

#70. This is a sublime work whether any higher power exists or not. It does not prove the existence of anything. No gods ever created art.'
'In an earlier age, some might have considered such a sentiment blasphemy.'
'Blasphemy,' said Revelation with a wry smile, 'is a victimless crime.

Graham McNeill

#71. To leave a door shut that might be open is in my eyes some form of blasphemy.

Virginia Woolf

#72. Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.

Frank Gaffney

#73. Now a doll found naked in a ditch
eyes rusted open, is blasphemy.

Deborah Digges

#74. In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

Jorge Luis Borges

#75. In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.

Joanna Southcott

#76. Since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the most dangerous and repressive force that the world has ever known.

Tom Robbins

#77. Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

William Bennett

#78. Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts.

Frank Herbert

#79. I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy? I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn ... but the troops were dazzled.

James Goldman

#80. Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone's beliefs as seriously as they do.

Jasper Sole

#81. A wasted human being
that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#82. Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.

Katy Perry

#83. That God should allow good people to be as bestially stupid as that--rose against me like a towering blasphemy.

G.K. Chesterton

#84. When Stephen declares that he sees the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God, he is stoned for blasphemy because, in the view of these Jews, no one has the right to be at the side of God's heavenly presence.

Darrell L. Bock

#85. What we heard was not the fabulous note of any buried blasphemy of elder earth from whose supernal toughness an age-denied polar sun had evoked a monstrous response.

H.P. Lovecraft

#86. All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

Neale Donald Walsch

#87. God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

John Adams

#88. Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

Richard Dawkins

#89. That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

William Shakespeare

#90. Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.

David Mitchell

#91. One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

Dan Savage

#92. Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

Robert M. Price

#93. In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled the vacuum of organised religion, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy.

Nigel Lawson

#94. The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#95. When I told you I didn't want you it was the blackest kind of blasphemy

Stephenie Meyer

#96. To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

David Attenborough

#97. To worship ourselves rather than Christ is idolatry; but to dismiss anything of ourselves, including our bodies, as of trivial importance is a form of blasphemy.

Francis George

#98. The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Salman Rushdie

#99. Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

Friedrich Nietzsche

#100. And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.

D.H. Lawrence