In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church". — Anne Askew Copy Share Image
We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Repentance is a 180 degree turn, whereas Reformation is only a 90 degree turn.” — Atom Tate Copy Share Image
I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. — Mev Puleo Copy Share Image
Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart. — David Norton Copy Share Image
“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press, and Protestantism… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins… It… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became. — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer… — James O. Fraser Copy Share Image
Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments… — Thomas Ferguson Copy Share Image
My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
Protestantism has actually put a man in the position of a country governed by secret police. The spy and eavesdropper, 'conscience,' watches… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
In many ways, American evangelicalism is somewhat stronger today than it was in, say 1955 - certainly more mainstream and influential in… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“Far more serious still is the division between the Church of Rome and evangelical Protestantism in all its forms. Yet how great… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavors. Where might I be, if I were… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work accrues to God’s glory, success looks like a… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“Mainline American Protestantism, as is often the case, plodded wearily along as if nothing had changed. Like an aging dowager, living in… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange that it should be precisely our century—a century of social science and of solidarity if ever there was… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
“The Reformation is one root of the idea of human freedom and autonomy as it is represented in modern democracy. However, while… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“In Protestantism there has been a persistent belief that to externalize religion is to degrade it. Only in the privacy of the… — Robert Nisbet Copy Share Image
“In the sixteenth century the unity of western European Christendom had been shattered by the rise of Protestantism in its various strands… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“From the outset, Protestantism rejected the critical medieval distinction between the 'sacred' and 'secular' orders. While this position can easily be interpreted… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Just when we are in many ways moving to an ever greater validation of the sacredness of the individual person, our capacity… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
“In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great event which has… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“One of Gunter’s fears was that the Bible was a ‘policy’, a deliberately manipulative hoax. This venerable theme, revived by Machiavelli, now… — Alec Ryrie Copy Share Image
“Protestantism harbors within it certain elements – just as the Great Reformer himself harbored such elements within his personality. I am thinking… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
