Courses Quote by Marilynne Robinson

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…

— Lewis Browne

Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much…

— Matthew Arnold

The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning.…

— John Shelby Spong

Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and…

— Bertrand Russell

Protestantism developed its sense of identity primarily in response to external threats and criticisms rather than as a result of shared beliefs. In one…

— Anonymous

My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.

— Sylvia Kristel

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

— Quentin S. Crisp

When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it…

— Anonymous

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

— Joseph Brodsky

Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of…

— Abraham Kuyper

“We often understand the Protestant Reformation as a conflict about doctrine. Justification. Grace versus works. Ecclesiology. Indulgences. And it was. But what captured the…

— Tish Harrison Warren