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Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint. -- Thomas Beecham
...as a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses... -- Matt Ruff
To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant. -- John Henry Newman
I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant. -- Sally Quinn
Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant. -- Mother Teresa
Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something. -- Ethel Waters
No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant. -- John Henrik Clarke
I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting. -- Mel Brooks
Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet. -- Irene Thomas
Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends. -- Liam Neeson
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. -- Thomas Carlyle
I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am. -- Joseph Brodsky
It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic. -- Martin Luther
I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult. -- Quentin S. Crisp
I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant. -- Daniel Radcliffe
I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets. -- Wilson Mizner
A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor. -- Benjamin Disraeli
My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities. -- Sylvia Kristel
As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman. -- John Bright
I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic. -- Elvis Costello
There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled. -- Mark Twain
The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism. -- Stanley Hauerwas
One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour. -- Sunday Adelaja
A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure. -- John Foxe
What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process. -- Patricia Heaton
Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish. -- Billy Graham
As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging. -- Lundy Bancroft
Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world. -- Peter Kreeft
My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce. -- Mitch Albom
If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism. -- Garry Kasparov
I am Presbyterian and Protestant. I've had great relationships and developed even greater relationships with ministers. We have tremendous support from the clergy. -- Donald Trump
Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity. -- Ambrose Bierce
Come Friday, the world will see what the Protestant people really think of this so-called peace process, which is really a surrender process. -- Ian Paisley
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.' -- Richard Dawkins
Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee. -- Robert Herrick
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot. -- Rene Burri
One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out geographically. --
A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to. -- Rob Corddry
Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime. -- Honore de Balzac
I show how much of the wars of religion involved Catholics killing Catholics, Lutherans killing Lutherans, and Catholic-Protestant collaboration. (Page 10 The Myth of Religious Violence) -- William Cavanaugh
As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body. -- Jim Al-Khalili
The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days. -- Marina Warner
I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God. -- N. T. Wright
I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas. -- Mary Mapes Dodge
The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school. -- James Nesbitt
People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church. -- Donald Trump
America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity. -- Stanley Hauerwas
People are so shocked when they find ... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church and I love God and I love my church. -- Donald Trump
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status. -- Paul Goodman
We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. -- Joshua A. Norton
We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. -- Joshua A. Norton
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
There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life. -- Paul Vitz
I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic. -- Queen Latifah
The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, He will definitely come in! -- Paul Washer
If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand. -- Conor Oberst
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life. -- Stephen Greenblatt
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. -- Orson Welles
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim. -- Michael Caine
Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education. -- Paul Kurtz
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England. -- Henry Fielding
Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there. -- Ralph Martin
My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick. -- Mickey Spillane
They [muslims] are chopping off heads in Syria. Christianity is under siege. I'm Protestant, Presbyterian, and I'm proud of it. Other religions frankly are banding together, we need to band together. -- Donald Trump
I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what. -- Aimee Semple McPherson
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America. -- Walter Russell Mead
I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord. -- Paul Crouch
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish ... where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all. -- John F. Kennedy
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
One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that. -- Richard Rohr
I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done. -- Pierre Bayle
I guess the biggest issue my husband and I are going to have is how do we raise the baby... because he's Jewish and I'm Protestant and the baby's father is Catholic. -- Bonnie McFarlane
I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools. -- Charles Tupper
It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for. -- Frederick Buechner
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious. -- Tony Blair
We don't have to go around as the Protestant reformation did, or as the socialist revolution did, and execute each other as soon as we are successful - assuming we'll ever be successful. -- Murray Bookchin
To be sure about nonsense he had to be able to classify it, assign it to a family tree of liberal nonsense, humanist-humanitarian nonsense, academic nonsense, Protestant nonsense, Freudian nonsense and so on. -- Kingsley Amis
I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation. -- Sarah Winnemucca
Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc. -- Sunday Adelaja
Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the Protestant ethic parents, as materialism corrupted the original aestheticism of the godly? -- Niall Ferguson
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs. -- Simon Hoggart
I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it. -- Andy Dick
In the eyes of the Associated Press, American Christianity, which springs from the Protestant Reformation, is fundamentalist. And Christian Fundamentalists, radical Muslims, Hindu extremists, and fanatical Zionists are all the same - bloodthirsty lunatics. -- Pat Robertson
If the modern Protestant churches must maintain her place of relevance in the society, we would need to review where we missed it and how we have diverted from the teachings of the Protestants. -- Sunday Adelaja
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course. -- Charlton Heston
I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever. -- Ally Sheedy
The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before. -- Nate Silver
My mother, a nonpracticing Jew from Delaware, had married a non-practicing Protestant in California. Sometimes, certainly not always, Jew + Protestant = Unitarian, and that is what we were - 'Jewnitarians,' as I like to say. -- Michelle Huneven
I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America. -- John F. Kerry
This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me. -- Alan Hovhaness
And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens. -- Howard Fast
I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality. -- Michael Caine
At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone. -- Kevin DeYoung
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. -- Camille Paglia
We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited. -- James Surowiecki
The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Nobody else in the world would look at writing as craftsmanship - it's totally this Protestant hardworking ethic. You go into this kind of infinite space of imagination and you fence yourself in with all kinds of laws. -- Etgar Keret
I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on. -- Jonny Greenwood
We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant. -- Eartha Kitt
I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic. -- Jo Brand
I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and we had a horrible experience with the English Protestant police, I lost all taste for formal religion. -- Guy Laliberte
In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. -- Orson Welles
MRA is the good road of an ideology inspired by God upon which all can unite. Catholic, Jew and Protestant, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and Confucianist - all find they can change, where needed, and travel along this good road together. -- Frank Buchman
I didn't believe in a guardian angel when I was young. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and the one thing you had over your Catholic friends was that you didn't have those awful saints chivvying you around. -- Jennifer Johnston
The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual. -- John Steinbeck
The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual." -- John Steinbeck
They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take off their clothes or shout prophecies on street corners, only to revert to normal after a few days' treatment. -- Amos Elon
I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside. -- Pierre Trudeau
Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies of the resurrected Roman Empire. For 30 years I have been proclaiming this tremendous event over the air and in print, -- Herbert W. Armstrong
As DH Lawrence said, the Protestant societies do dirt on sex, it is their dirty mind which aligns sex and a woman's genitals with the debased and soiled. This is something terrible, I think, and to be contended with head-on in art. -- Micheline Aharonian Marcom
My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options. -- Susan Isaacs
I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.' -- Graham Norton
When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant notion of conscience."Consciousness" was imported to play in the mental world the role played by light in the mechanical world. -- Gilbert Ryle

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