Balance Quote by Matthew Arnold

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

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

Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious…

— Fareed Zakaria

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

— Quentin S. Crisp

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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

I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty…

— Melvyn Bragg

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

— Joseph Brodsky

Protestantism, of course, is much more explicitly divided into different traditions - the Pentecostals, the Anglicans. But there is the main tradition of Protestantism…

— Marilynne Robinson

Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.

— Dwight Longenecker

Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma is, therefore,…

— Bertrand Russell

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say…

— Robert Duvall