Apostasy Quotes

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

  John Stott

  Essence, Sides

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.339, InterVarsity Press

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• Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Inappropriate Behavior, Levels, Lord

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• 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

  Christian, Church, Essentials

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• Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Spiritual, Adultery

  Francis August Schaeffer (1971). “The church before the watching world: a practical ecclesiology”, IVP Books

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• A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

  Matthew Henry

  Ignorance, States

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.8475, Harper Collins

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

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Punishment, Islam, Today

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• 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

  Way, Revelations, Obedience

  John Owen (1852). “The Works ...”, p.158

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• The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

  Benjamin Rush

  Knowing Jesus, Going To Church, Truth Will Prevail

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1793-1813”

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• When someone gets up and says that the Bible is not the word of God, I really don't care what their point is. That, to me, is apostasy.

  Greg Laurie

  Care, Get Up, Word Of God

  "Greg Laurie: Watered-Down Mainline Christianity Is a Sign of the End Times (Interview)". Interview with Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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• Look at the Metropolitan Community Church today, the gay church, almost accepted into the World Council of Churches. Almost, the vote was against them. But they will try again and again until they get in, and the tragedy is that they would get one vote. Because they are spoken of here in Jude as being brute beasts, that is going to the baser lust of the flesh to live immorally, and so Jude describes this as apostasy. But thank God this vile and satanic system will one day be utterly annihilated and there'll be a celebration in heaven.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Humor, Gay

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• The Bible says that in the last days, there would be false teachers. And, it also says that in the End Times that... there would be an apostasy.

  Greg Laurie

  Teacher, Would Be, Lasts

  "Greg Laurie: Watered-Down Mainline Christianity Is a Sign of the End Times (Interview)". Interview with Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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• Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.

  Ali Gomaa

  Islam, Crime

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• Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the word of God, which could lead them, through faith, to an understanding, rather than to have them stray away into strange paths of man-made theories and be plunged into the murky waters of disbelief and apostasy?

  Harold B. Lee

  Men, Iron, Water

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

  Sam Harris

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• Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Long, Guilt

  Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America; Security of the Independence of Parliament; on Mr. Fox's East India”, p.242, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in Revelation. The fact of the great apostasy is attested by both sacred and secular writ, and history bears witness that it became universal. We proclaim this fact of history not as an attack on any church. We do not assume any position of "holier than thou" or "wiser than thou," but we announce this historic fact of the apostasy as a vindication of the claim that there has been in fact a restoration of the gospel.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Historical, Church, Restoration

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• We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and murdered by Islamic fanatics, accused of exactly the same things that I was, these medieval crimes of apostasy And heresy, but then broadening from that into a broader attack on all of us.

  Salman Rushdie

  Islamic, World, Medieval

  "In 'Joseph Anton,' Salman Rushdie Writes Novelistically About His Own Life". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 7, 2012.

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

  John R. Rice

  Inspiration, Civilization, Wickedness

  John R. Rice (2000). “We Can Have Revival Now: Soul Winner's Fire”, p.137, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• 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

  Fall, Teaching, Believe

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• ...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.

  Pope Pius X

  Country, Powerful, True Friend

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• 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

  Acceptance, Soul, Sanctuary

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2101, e-artnow

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• I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.

  Bob Dylan

  Sick, Leader, Want

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• 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

  Baby, Mean, Thinking

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• And there was some trouble with Oliver Cowdery, and whisper said it was relating to a girl then living in his family; and I was afterwards told by Warren Parish, that he himself and Oliver Cowdery did not that Joseph had Fannie Alger as wife, for they were spied upon and found together. And I can now see that at Nauvoo, so at Kirtland, that the suspicion or knowledge of the Prophet's plural relation was one of the causes of apostasy and disruption at Kirtland, although at the time there was little said publicly on the subject.

  Benjamin F. Johnson

  Girl, Wife, Together

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