“This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.” — Melanie Ross Copy Share Image
The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The distinction between the church invisible and the church visible lies at the heart of the conflict between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.” — Ryan M. McGraw 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
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
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
“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
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Protestantism developed its sense of identity primarily in response to external threats and criticisms rather than as a result of shared beliefs.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“While the hardware of civilization - iron pots, blankets, guns - was welcomed by Native people, the software of Protestantism and Catholicism… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
It's a long way from Martin Luther's 'On the Freedom of a Christian' to 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and a vigorous Protestantism should… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism,… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We… — Thomas Mann 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, "If you could only get rid of the… — Reinhold Niebuhr 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
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
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
Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The only plausible common basis for all these events is to celebrate the rise of Protestantism. This raises an even more important… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously… — Lilias Trotter Copy Share Image
Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“If we who self-designate ourselves with terms like "Catholic," "Orthodox," "Protestant," "Evangelical," "Charismatic," "Pentecostal" and others would fully surrender ourselves to The… — John David Geib Copy Share Image
It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Protestantism includes every type of religious thought and organization from 'high church' Anglicanism to high-principled Quakerism, from ecstatic Methodism to relentlessly intellectual… — Lewis Browne Copy Share Image
Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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