Quotes about Controversy
Christianity is incendiarism; Christ Himself says, 'I am come to set fire on the earth'…official Christianity is not the Christianity of the New Testament.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
— Joel Osteen
Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor
— Mother Teresa
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
— Edmund Burke
Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day!
— Anonymous
Freedom of speech wasn't won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.
— David Starkey
He's on fire alright, but sometimes that kind of fire can burn churches down.
— Francine Rivers
I'm willing to give Pat Robertson a pass when he says things he shouldn't. That's because for every wacky, regrettable thing he says, he does a hundred thousand non-wacky good things that you'll never hear about on television.
— Eric Metaxas
I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
— Ronald Reagan
Let's face it. Our ass is in a crack. We're gonna have to let this nigger bill pass. [Said to Senator John Stennis (D-MS) during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957]
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
— John Barrymore
For I fear not to declare, that what I have here given may be regarded as a summary of the very doctrine which, they vociferate, ought to be punished with confiscation, exile, imprisonment, and flames, as well as exterminated by land and sea.
— John Calvin