Across Quote by Michael O'Brien

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

— George Washington

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

— Abigail McCarthy

“So controversial was the preaching of the gospel that the religious establishment of the Jewish community forbade the Apostles from preaching the gospel at…

— Reformation Trust Publishing

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

— E. O. Wilson

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

— John Shelby Spong

... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a…

— Frederick William Robertson

“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal…

— George Washington

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that…

— Garry Wills

I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I'm noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is a reaction…

— Lee Strobel

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the…

— George Washington

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

— Anonymous