Quote by Kurt Andersen

“It is as if Protestantism by clinging to the Scripture wished to preserve the last faint echoes of God’s Word in a world that…

— Hermann Broch

“the history of Protestantism is very great. It presents like no other of Luther's writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the…

— Martin Luther

“The great compromise between the American religious impulse and the American Enlightenment in the 1700s permitted any and every conceivable sect to bud and…

— Kurt Andersen

“every person carries the seed of enlightenment within,”

— Eckhart Tolle

“In the vast majority of instances today a Protestant has no idea what the word itself denotes, what the historical background behind it was,…

— James R. White

“Luther’s breakthrough had a dazzling, corrosive simplicity to it. The power of those twin principles, “faith alone” and “Scripture alone,” lay in the word…

— Alec Ryrie

It's a long way from Martin Luther's 'On the Freedom of a Christian' to 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and a vigorous Protestantism should be able…

— Ross Douthat

“a call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality.”

— Veronica Roth

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

— H. L. Mencken

“I found, in plain words, that there was no longer any question of clinging to the Protestant faith. It was simply a question of…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Better the self-torture of a godless Protestant conscience than the fantasies of a modern Prometheus.”

— Mark Lilla

“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to…

— Eckhart Tolle