Protestantism Quotes

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Atheism, Proof

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.311, Knopf

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• The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

  Edmund Burke

  Religion, Principles, Resistance

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

  R. C. Sproul

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2017

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• I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.

  James O. Fraser

  Christian, Teacher, Prayer

  "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 269), 1998.

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• In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

  Philipp Melanchthon

  Freedom, Differences, Unity

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• To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.

  Miroslav Volf

  Two, Evil, Victory

  Miroslav Volf (2006). “The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World”, p.9, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

  William Tyndale

  Trust, God, Faith

  William Tyndale, John Frith (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith”, p.317

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• And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Religious, Jesus, Enemy

  Thomas Cranmer (1833). “Remains”, p.140

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• Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.

  Lilias Trotter

  Life, God, Christian

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• I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

  Anne Askew

  Bible, Religion, Church

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• Thus, Protestantism will always stand up for the advancement of all Germans as such, as long as matters of inner purity or national deepening as well as German freedom are involved, since all these things have a firm foundation in its own being; but it combats with the greatest hostility any attempt to rescue the nation from the embrace of its most mortal enemy, since its attitude toward the Jews just happens to be more or less dogmatically established.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Long, Enemy

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• Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Children, Equality, Men

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• Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

  Peter Kreeft

  Believe, Catholic, Ladders

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• I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all the species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. Is there a conflict between science and religion here? There most certainly is.

  Daniel Dennett

  Buddhism, Thinking, Religion

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Sitting, Movement, Toilets

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.57, Feral House

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• I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

  Martin Luther

  Life, God, Christian

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• Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

  Seamus Heaney

  Class System, Caste System, Want

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• . . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.

  Thomas Huxley

  Religion, Desire, Failing

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1967). “The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings”

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• The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

  Benjamin Rush

  Knowing Jesus, Going To Church, Truth Will Prevail

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1793-1813”

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• Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture

  B. B. Warfield

  Essence, Scripture, Holy

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• In many ways, American evangelicalism is somewhat stronger today than it was in, say 1955 - certainly more mainstream and influential in the culture as a whole. But, the increased strength of evangelicalism hasn't increased fast enough to compensate for the total collapse of mainline Protestantism and the pretty steady weakening of my own Roman Catholic Church.

  Ross Douthat

  Catholic, Church, Stronger

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

  C. S. Lewis

  Decay, Holy Places, Amulets

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.403, Cambridge University Press

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• I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Buddhism, Light, Stronger

  Mahatma Gandhi (1929). “Young India”

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