You're supposed to be made in His image, and yet you're all such ungrateful pieces of filth. You only bow your heads when you want something.

Sin, blasphemy, heresy – all these are primitive ideas created by primitive creatures, unworthy of the title “human”.

Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy.

To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.

Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d'etre was a kind of mystical masochism, forcing initiates toward feats of occult daredevilry - 'glimpsing the inferno with eyes of ice', to take from the notebook a phrase that was repeated often and seemed a sort of chant of power. As I suspected, hallucinogenic drugs were used by the sect, and there was no doubt that they believed themselves communing with strange metaphysical venues. Their chief aim, in true mystical fashion, was to transcend common reality in the search for higher states of being, but their stratagem was highly unorthodox, a strange detour along the usual path toward positive illumination. Instead, they maintained a kind of blasphemous fatalism, a doomed determinism which brought them face to face with realms of obscure horror. Perhaps it was this very obscurity that allowed them the excitement of their central purpose, which seemed to be a precarious flirting with personal apocalypse, the striving for horrific dominion over horror itself.('The Dreaming In Nortown').

God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.

Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

Science blasphemed when tries to eliminate scarcity in economy.

Heresy,' by the way, simply means 'choice.' It came to mean 'thoughtcrime,' implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.