#protestant

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#elements #great #gun #modern #modern civilization

All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems. ↗

— Richard Morris

#days #hear #old #out #pop

I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#crown #did #gentlemen #honourable #i

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

— H. L. Mencken

#chief #contribution #god #human #human thought

Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#friends #had #i #lots #protestant

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#christianity #humor #protestantism #reformation #religion

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: ‘Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.’ But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God’s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God’s blessing. For if you had trust in God’s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper. ↗

— Martin Luther

#faith #god #marriage #money #parenthood

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#big #center #eye #fortunate #hear

Far more serious still is the division between the Church of Rome and evangelical Protestantism in all its forms. Yet how great is the common heritage which unites the Roman Catholic Church, with its maintenance of the authority of Holy Scripture and with its acceptance of the great early creeds, to devout Protestants today! We would not indeed obscure the difference which divides us from Rome. The gulf is indeed profound. But profound as it is, it seems almost trifling compared to the abyss which stands between us and many ministers of our own Church. The Church of Rome may represent a perversion of the Christian religion; but naturalistic liberalism is not Christianity at all. ↗

— J. Gresham Machen

#church-catholic #church-unity #protestantism #roman-catholic #theological-liberalism

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen. ↗

— Martin Luther

#god #protestantism #religion #service #religion