Protestantism Quotes

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Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart. — Louis Auguste Blanqui
I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments only); that Protestantism… — Thomas Ferguson
Protestantism includes every type of religious thought and organization from 'high church' Anglicanism to high-principled Quakerism, from ecstatic Methodism to relentlessly intellectual Unitarism. Only slowly,… — Lewis Browne
. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is… — Thomas Huxley
In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious… — Peter L. Berger
Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they… — Peter Kreeft
The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter,… — John Foxe
One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from of communication, there… — Robert H. Schuller
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism… — Edmund Burke
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at… — Harri Holkeri
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
Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease… — John Ralston Saul
Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left… — Matthew Arnold
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. — H. L. Mencken
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
The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was rebelling against traditions… — Sufjan Stevens
I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but at the very… — Stanley Hauerwas
America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created… — Stanley Hauerwas

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