Quotes for All
The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity. … Read more
It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger. Ephrem the Syrian
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
Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and … Read more
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
Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too. Friedrich Nietzsche
That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims. Frank Gaffney
As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence, we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven … Read more
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