{"quotes":[{"text":"I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.","author":"Martin Luther","tags":["christianity","god","protestantism","religion","service"],"id":10439,"author_id":"Martin+Luther"},{"text":"Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.","author":"Joyce Cary","tags":["anarchism","anarchists","buddha","church","churches","confucius","einstein","gulley-jimson","karma","plantie","protestantism","vitamins"],"id":16142,"author_id":"Joyce+Cary"},{"text":"—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?—I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?","author":"James Joyce","tags":["absurdity","atheism","catholicism","faith","funny","humor","illogical-incoherent","protestantism","religion","respect","secular"],"id":102595,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"What had been a region of model farming became almost a desert, for more than half the population was exiled or sent to concentration camps. The young people left the villages, the boys to go to the factories if they could get jobs, or to become vagabonds if they couldn’t.***An echo of the tragic fate of Russia’s German Protestant population reached the world when the Mennonites flocked to Moscow and sought permission to leave the country. Some of these Germans had tried to obey the government and had formed collective farms, only to have them liquidated as Kulak collectives. Being first-class farmers, they had committed the crime of making even a Kolkhoz productive and prosperous.Others had quite simply been expropriated from their individual holdings. All were in despair. Few were allowed to leave Russia. They were sent to Siberia to die, or herded into slave labor concentration camps. The crime of being good farmers was unforgivable, and they must suffer for this sin.***Cheat or be cheated, bully or be bullied, was the law of life. Only the German minority with their strong religious and moral sense—the individual morality of the Protestant as opposed to the mass subservience demanded by the Greek Orthodox Church and the Soviet Government—retained their culture and even some courage under Stalin’s Terror.","author":"Freda Utley","tags":["class-war","communism","germans","individualism","kulaks","peasants","protestantism","religion","soviet-union","ussr"],"id":106399,"author_id":"Freda+Utley"},{"text":"Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["catholicism","christianity","god","jesus-shock","protestantism","sacraments","spirituality","theology"],"id":124089,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["catholicism","christianity","humor","protestantism","reformation","religion"],"id":144713,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"If Roman Catholic Christianity has always struggled with the threat of works righteousness, Reformed Protestantism has always struggled with the threat of cheap grace. For many, if not the majority of Protestants, God's love and acceptance do not lead to personal transformation. Evangelical formation often involves seeking to reestablish a pattern of maturing behaviour that should be integral to one's conversion. So both traditions can be challenged on whether there is a genuinely helpful connection between conversion and transformation.","author":"Gordon T. Smith","tags":["cheap-grace","conversion","evangelicalism","protestantism","roman-catholicism","transformation","works-righteousness"],"id":157172,"author_id":"Gordon+T.+Smith"},{"text":"I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. (Rubem Alves, p. 201).","author":"Mev Puleo","tags":["catholic-church","protestantism","women"],"id":165092,"author_id":"Mev+Puleo"},{"text":"This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.","author":"Melanie Ross","tags":["christianity","church","ecumenism","evangelicalism","protestantism"],"id":204858,"author_id":"Melanie+Ross"},{"text":"In principle, to be sure, the Reformation idea of the universal priesthood of all believers meant that not only the clergy but also the laity, not only the theologian but also the magistrate, had the capacity to read, understand, and apply the teachings of the Bible. Yet one of the contributions of the sacred philology of the biblical humanists to the Reformation was an insistence that, in practice, often contradicted the notion of the universal priesthood: the Bible had to be understood on the basis of the authentic original text, written in Hebrew and Greek which, most of the time, only clergy and theologians could comprehend properly. Thus the scholarly authority of the Reformation clergy replaced the priestly authority of the medieval clergy.","author":"Jaroslav Pelikan","tags":["ity-in-christianity","biblical-languages","christian-humanism","philology","priesthood-of-all-believers","protestantism","reformation","the-bible","theology"],"id":217203,"author_id":"Jaroslav+Pelikan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}