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Quotes About Apostasy

On this view, then, Paul envisions an eschatological, end-of-time Antichrist, a man characterized by sin and destruction who will assume a place of influence and authority within the professing Church from which he will persecute God's people and foment a spiritual apostasy (cf. Matt. 7:21-23; 2 Tim. 1:15; Rev. 3:1; 11:7-13; 20:7-10), all of which must come to pass before the Lord Jesus can return in fullness.
~ Sam Storms
I was only giving expression to a sad reflection that was rising in my mind. Kichijiro was right in saying that all men are not saints and heroes. How many of our Christians, if only they had been born in another age from this persecution would never have been confronted with the problem of apostasy or martyrdom but would have lived blessed lives of faith until the very hour of death.
~ Shusaku Endo
group of people who had received the gospel but had then succumbed to a dilution of it so that they had departed from the basic Christian
~ John N. Oswalt
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
In this time of well-nigh universal apostasy, God calls upon His messengers to proclaim His law in the spirit and power of Elias.
~ Ellen G. White
The papacy is just what prophecy declared that she would be, the apostasy of the latter times.
~ Ellen G. White
I am encouraged and blessed as I realize that the God of Israel is still guiding His people, and that He will continue to be with them, even to the end.46 We cannot now step off the foundation that God has established. We cannot now enter into any new organization; for this would mean apostasy from the truth.47
~ Ellen G. White
Sa nu-ti renegi niciodata originile,oricate motive ai avea sa rosesti pentru ele.E o apostazie rusinoasa si de altfel fizic imposibila,o contradictie in termeni: e un refuz al indentitatii ,e ca si cum ai spune: "Eu nu sunt eu",lucru pe care,evident,il poti spune,dar care nu inseamna nimic-afara de cazul ca e o intorsatura retorica sau un paradox de circumstanta.
~ Emil Cioran
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.
~ Norman Finkelstein
Las religiones fundan las civilizaciones, que a su vez mueren cuando apostatan de la religión que las fundó
~ Juan Manuel de Prada
We sometimes look among our numbers to find one to whom we can point who agrees with us, so we can have company to justify our apostasy. We rationalize by saying that someday the Church doctrine will catch up with our way of thinking. Truth is not established by Gallup polls.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence.
~ Billy Graham
Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.
~ Pat Buchanan
Common grace ... an imperfect solution ... does centre our attention on the gracious act of God in protecting man's corrupt and apostate nature from total demonization.
~ G C Berkouwer
In conclusion, the entire narrative of Deuteronomy 32 tells the story of God dispersing the nations at Babel and allotting the nations to be ruled by "gods" who were demons, or fallen divine beings called sons of God. God then allots the people of Israel for himself, through Abraham, and their territory of Canaan. But God's people fall away from him and worship these other gods and are judged for their apostasy. We will now see that Yahweh will judge these gods as well.
~ Brian Godawa
Too often, Muslims, especially females, who challenge certain widely accepted views are met with warnings to desist; that way, it is said, lies heresy, blasphemy, apostasy. Those who have appointed themselves the guardians of communal orthodoxy are particularly vigilant on matters concerned with women and gender – in part, because it is in these realms that the construction of Muslim identity in self-conscious opposition to a decadent West takes place.
~ Kecia Ali
the apostasy laws in God's Law are not laws against mere unbelief or misguided worship. Those laws were designed to protect the legal integrity of the nation (criminalizing such actions as treason, conspiracy, seditious revolt, and espionage) and to bring judgment against wicked idolatry (criminalizing such actions as cultural subversion and public mayhem).
~ Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.
The leaven of apostasy has spread to every developed nation. This makes modern culture more difficult to interpret in that there are both apostatizing trajectories and Christian roots intertwined within Western culture.
~ Kevin Swanson
Why did Paul warn us about heresy and false teaching if he saw a golden age ahead for the church in which the peril of false teaching is eliminated until a brief period of apostasy? He gave us this warning because he expected heresy and false teaching to plague Christ's church until the end of the age. We must be on our guard until the day of Christ Jesus.
~ Kim Riddlebarger
I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death.
~ Robert Cailliau
I see apostasy in many ways occurring in Evangelical churches that really aren't teaching the truth of God's word. I do believe that some churches have become entertainment centers and a teaching a type of prosperity Gospel rather than teaching God's word.
~ Robert Jeffress
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
To have a simple, untroubled faith, you must keep your spiritual innocence. That requires avoiding cynicism and criticism. This is the day of the cynics, the critics, and the pickle-suckers. Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes a catalyst that leads to failure. In the Church, it sows the seed of inactivity and finally apostasy.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
How would you say "delightful talk" in Russian?' 'How would you say "good night"?' Oh, that would be: Bessónnitza, tvoy vzor oonýl i stráshen; lubóv' moyá, otstóopnika prostée. (Insomnia, your stare is dull and ashen, my love, forgive me this apostasy.)
~ Vladimir Nabokov