Amulets Quote by Anonymous

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 a vague…

— C. S. Lewis

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it…

— Max Heindel

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

— H.L. Mencken

Beware of bad Catholics.

— Saint Augustine

“In Protestantism there has been a persistent belief that to externalize religion is to degrade it. Only in the privacy of the individual soul…

— Robert Nisbet

“We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent lives, which will often be…

— Ronald A. Knox

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

— Sally Quinn

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

— Charles Dickens

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion…

— Karen Armstrong

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually…

— John Piper

The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . .…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the…

— Simone Weil