Protestants Quotes

It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic.

— Martin Luther

Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.

— Thomas Beecham

Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian.

— Tony Campolo

Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

— Ethel Waters

No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

— John Henrik Clarke

Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant.

— Mother Teresa

I already shot my wad on the Protestants!

— Gene Siskel

I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.

— Sally Quinn

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

— Harvey Cox

The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

— Greta Gerwig

I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

— Quentin S. Crisp

Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve.

— Adolf Hitler

The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God.

— Mike Bickle

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.

— Allen W. Wood

“I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. (Rubem Alves, p. 201)”

— Mev Puleo

There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion…

— Paul Vitz

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only…

— Henry Fielding

...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti…

— John Shelby Spong

I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in…

— Adam Weishaupt

I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to…

— Sarah Winnemucca

“With the departure of the acknowledged head of the Catholic party, the Protestants gained a degree of influence over the royal family…

— Nancy Goldstone

And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic…

— Howard Fast

In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far…

— William Sloane Coffin

When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics,…

— Martin Niemoller

In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming…

— Adolf Hitler

“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in…

— ben franklin

“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of…

— Philip Pullman

“As the Protestants celebrate a goal, they're egged on by the team captain, a long-haired Italian called Lorenzo Amoruso, who has the…

— Franklin Foer

“The Catholics get rid of the difficulty by setting up an infallible Pope, and consenting formally to accept his verdicts, but the…

— H.L. Mencken

The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for…

— Elie Wiesel

Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and…

— Elaine Pagels

“The common Calvinist experience of life as a refugee, or of being part of a host community that received refugees, led to…

— Thurgood Marshall

I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.

— Wilson Mizner

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

— James Larkin

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

— John Henry Newman

“Growing up, there were Catholics and (gasp) non-Catholics, such as Protestants.”

— Charles Benedict

As a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses.

— Matt Ruff

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior…

— Ambrose Bierce

The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into…

— Paul Washer