Quotes About Catholic Protestants

#1. The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

W. H. Auden

#2. Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.

Dwight Longenecker

#3. Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

Ethel Waters

#4. Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.

Andrew Dickson White

#5. I always knew I could play, but it wasn't likely to happen in Boston. I'm grateful to the Red Sox for trading me and to the Marlins for giving me the chance.

Hanley Ramirez

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

Mev Puleo

#7. Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism.

Bertrand Russell

#8. In kicking the balls, the most important thing was never to hesitate.

Haruki Murakami

#9. It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic.

Martin Luther

#10. The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.

Mitch Albom

#11. Unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag,
of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag.
Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan
useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.

Anne Sexton

#12. Voters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit the candidates to a religious test is unfair enough - to apply it to the voters is divisive, degrading and wholly unwarranted.

John F. Kennedy

#13. You want to achieve the effect, but not necessarily perform the same thing.

Andrew Wyatt

#14. Hence from all we have hitherto said, it is clear beloved Catholics that we cannot approve the opinions which some [Protestants, Jews, and other heretics] comprise under the head of Americanism [freedom].

Pope Leo XIII

#15. The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#16. My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

Kate O'Brien

#17. Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.

Tom Lehrer

#18. Faith causes changes. Anytime there is change, there is opportunity, including the opportunity to fail. But failing can be a step toward completion of a goal. You can fail your way to success.

Paula White

#19. The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

Harvey Cox

#20. She was brought up strict Irish Catholic ... Protestants were evil, monstrous people and somehow probably contagious, and Katie grew up fearing them, praying to God she'd never see one.

Lisa Genova

#21. 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

#22. I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats.

Frank Tuttle

#23. Muslims want the whole world to be Muslim. Christians want the whole world to be Christian. Catholics, Protestants, Mormons. They're all the same. Far out, right? Everyone wants the world to be like them.

Peter Fonda