18th century Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

“The establishment of Protestant Christianity was one not only of law, but also, and far more importantly, of culture. Christianity supplied the nation with…

— Gary DeMar

“But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve of their pastor and seek to…

— Robertson Davies

It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic.

— Martin Luther

Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they…

— Mark Steyn

Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

— Ignatius of Antioch

“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

“Even the very system of bishoprics galled the devout adherents of the old, saintly Celtic church, that had no worldly trappings, courted no thrones,…

— Ellis Peters

“... [E]xperience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of Religion, have had a contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries…

— James Madison

“...to become a Christian one did not have to become a European. [Jesuit mission philosophy]”

— John W. O'Malley S.J

“In the sixteenth century the unity of western European Christendom had been shattered by the rise of Protestantism in its various strands (Lutheran, Calvinist,…

— Jerry Z. Muller

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

— Grace Jones

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

— Quentin S. Crisp