To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory,… — Miroslav Volf 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“Protestantism's evolution away from hierarchy and authority has enormous consequences for America and the world. On the one hand, the democratization of… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Protestantism, of course, is much more explicitly divided into different traditions - the Pentecostals, the Anglicans. But there is the main tradition… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Thus, Protestantism will always stand up for the advancement of all Germans as such, as long as matters of inner purity or… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“It is widely unknown, but nonetheless true that Catholicism fervently promotes the 'spiritual disciplines' whereas Protestantism has largely neglected them altogether. Does… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“If Roman Catholic Christianity has always struggled with the threat of works righteousness, Reformed Protestantism has always struggled with the threat of… — Gordon T. Smith 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
The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The essential unity of the formal and material principles of the Reformation lies in the fact that to affirm that Christianity was,… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“the history of Protestantism is very great. It presents like no other of Luther's writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
![“. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.” quote by Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/973/thomas-huxley-1183_bible_i-fail-to-find-a-trace-in-protestantism_1736418.png)
