#protestant

I’ve often wondered why the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, rather than in Poland. Then I realize that Luther had to nail his 95 theses to the church door, and the Poles didn’t know how to operate a hammer. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#church #germany #hammer #lutheran #martin-luther

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever. ↗

— Ally Sheedy

#black #everybody #fall #i #i think

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places. ↗

— E. Digby Baltzell

#men

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#been #enough #liberal #lost #lot

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people. ↗

— John Bright

#both #catholic #church #episcopalian #everybody

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#church #die #done #even #last

We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. ↗

— Joshua A. Norton

#churches #command #crowned #emperor #hebrew

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.' ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#children #disapprove #especially #i #i do

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

— Richard Morris

#days #hear #old #out #pop

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#am #bottom #done #everything #full