28 Quotes About Protestantism

"I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. (Rubem Alves, p. 201)"

"Repentance is a 180 degree turn, whereas Reformation is only a 90 degree turn."

"It is an irony still to be appreciated by many scholars that by so maximizing sinfulness (before God every man is guilty of every conceivable sin) Protestants tried to minimize its psychological burden (no man is required to ponder and recite his every actual sin)"

"Yesterday I asked a five-year-old child who Jesus was. You know what he replied? A statue."

"—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?—I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?"

"Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church."

"Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins."

"This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination."

"Oppressive violence and hatred may, ultimately, turn [the] sheep into wolves."