Quotes of Protestantism - somelinesforyou

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

- H. L. Mencken

“ 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

“ 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

“ A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. ”

- Matthew
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