Protestantism Quotes

• The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • God
  • Responsibility
  • Protestantism

• Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis and later tradition; it fails, however, in the moment when this defense of national interests must take place in a province which is either absent from the general line of its ideological world and traditional development, or is for some reason rejected.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Development
  • Tradition
  • Province

• One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Believe
  • Done

• One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from of communication, there is an inherent, intrinsic inclination to intimidate, manipulate, and, hence, offend the person's most prized quality of humanness - his dignity.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Role
  • Pulpit
  • Protestantism

• In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

  

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky
  • Proportion
  • Catholicism
  • Protestantism

• 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
  • Victory
  • Happens
  • Triumph