The Protestant Establishment Quotes

#1. The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign and instrument of intimate union with God, of the unity of the whole of mankind, and of the personal duty to adhere more closely to her.

Pope John Paul II

#2. The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

E. Digby Baltzell

#3. As love is full of unbefitting strains,
All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
To every varied object in his glance

William Shakespeare

#4. The establishment of Protestant Christianity was one not only of law, but also, and far more importantly, of culture. Christianity supplied the nation with it's system of values.

Gary DeMar

#5. Popularity is not an indication of quality.

Vanna Bonta

#6. No one came to earth empty; everybody came with a contribution to make to their generation. Most of them never find that gift and even more die never releasing it.

Myles Munroe

#7. Winning the war of words involves choosing our words carefully. It is not just about the words we say, but also about the words we choose not to say.

Paul David Tripp

#8. Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.

Stanley Hauerwas