Catholicism Quote by William Edward Hartpole Lecky Download Open image “In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.” — William Edward Hartpole Lecky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catholicism Has beens Proportion Protestantism Religion
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“With the departure of the acknowledged head of the Catholic party, the Protestants gained a degree of influence over the royal family completely out… — Nancy Goldstone Copy Share Image
I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
All travellers agree that protestant are both richer and more populous than catholic countries;and the reason is, because the habits of the former are… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together… — Paul Crouch Copy Share Image
I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant. — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties. It sometimes… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ...… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“One of the great differences between childhood and manhood is that we come to like our work more than our play. It becomes to… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly sinking into… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live… — Bible Copy Share Image
Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie:… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Forgive my friends and me for every time we have looked at someone different and considered her or him to be of lesser quality.… — Jos Chp 2 Copy Share Image
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There's this great fear, and I find, lack of knowledge of Catholicism, just like I'm ignorant of other things. I think we should all… — Catherine Hicks Copy Share Image