Top 24 Religious Controversy Quotes
#1. It must also be noted that until the present time this malady, like religious controversy, has been wholly confined to the continent of Europe.
Voltaire
#2. He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.
Hannah More
#3. She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.
Tatjana Soli
#4. My own tears seemed landlocked and frozen in a glacier I could not reach or touch within me.
Pat Conroy
#5. Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming.
Richard Russo
#6. Religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.
Frederick William Robertson
#7. The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I'm the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.
Ryan Guzman
#8. Whenever a controversy arises over sexual or reproductive morals, you can bet that religious leaders from several different faith groups will be prominently represented on influential committees, or on panel discussions on radio or television.
Richard Dawkins
#9. Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and a movie icon.
Travis Fimmel
#10. I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night ...
Erma Bombeck
#11. There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.
Richard Thompson
#12. I can't blame her. but
wonder why she's here with
me? where are the other
guys? how can you be
lucky? having someone the
others have abandoned?
Charles Bukowski
#13. An apparently good way to get more information about religious group would be through the media. In actual fact, it's probably the worst. Why? Because what makes hot news stories are things like controversy, opposing views, harm, blood, sex, big names, big money, scandal, ect.
Stan Koehler
#14. This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.
Barack Obama
#15. I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.
Marjane Satrapi
#16. EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.
Ambrose Bierce
#17. Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle.
James R. Lewis
#18. Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.
Max Frisch
#19. They say that there are a prodigious number of birds hereabouts this year, so that perhaps I may kill a few.
Jane Austen
#21. You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
Kary Mullis
#22. I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.
Abraham Lincoln
#23. Nothing says, 'I like you' like your tongue in their mouth.
Kristen Ashley
#24. We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero ... The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.
Christiane Amanpour