The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] most recent trip was to Sweden, where he commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. That had triggered one… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to… — Sarah Winnemucca Copy Share Image
There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion… — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I grew up Presbyterian. Presbyterians thought the Methodists were wrong. Catholics thought all Protestants were wrong. The Jews thought the Christians were… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days,… — Scott MacDonald Copy Share Image
So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic… — Geoffrey Cowan Copy Share Image
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
They [muslims] are chopping off heads in Syria. Christianity is under siege. I'm Protestant, Presbyterian, and I'm proud of it. Other religions… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant… — Aimee Semple McPherson Copy Share Image
Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for… — Ralph Martin Copy Share Image
I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics,… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay… — Susan Brigden Copy Share Image
If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and… — Robert D. Brinsmead Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of… — Gail Buckley Copy Share Image
Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
When I think how much my Protestant brothers and sisters are missing in not having Christ's Real Presence in the Eucharist; when… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“In the 18th century, a new awareness of the problem emerged and people, especially women, "occasionally banded together to try to persuade,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My background is Protestant so I benefited from the great Bible teaching that was provided there... I did love the more culturally… — Keith Getty 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
The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant,… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image