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Letter "P" » Protestants
«I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.»
«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)»
Author: Pope Leo XIII
| Keywords:
Americanism, approve, Catholics, comprise, comprises, comprising, Heretics, hitherto, Jews, Protestants
«Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be;Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.A heart as soft, a heart as kind,A heart as sound and freeAs in the whole world thou canst find,That heart I'll give to thee.Bid that heart stay, and it will stayTo honour thy decree;Or bid it languish quite away,And't shall do so for thee.Bid me to weep, and I will weep,While I have eyes to see;And having none, yet I will keepA heart to weep for thee.Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en death, to die for thee.--Thou art my life, my love, my heart,The very eyes of me;And hast command of every part,To live and die for thee.»
«America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.»
Author: Norman Mailer
| Keywords:
Eye of, fortunate, hurricane, hurricanes, incredibly, Protestants, serene, smug, The Center, The Hurricane
«SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority and significance are attached. Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity. Some of the smaller sects have no sacraments at all --for which mean economy they will indubitable be damned.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
indubitable, Protestant, Protestants, Protestant Church, religious ceremony, religious sect, sacraments, seven churches, the sacrament
«HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
extinct, in the beginning, last century, Protestants, sect
«Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Golf,
Sports
| Keywords:
clothing, hideous, open to, originally, overweight, owns, Protestants, restrict, restricted, restricting, restricts, wealthy
«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.»
Author: Orson Welles
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American Express, anti, conformist, conformists, disappearing, individualist, individualists, in reality, Protestant, Protestants
«For my part, Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious»
«I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
creed, Greek, Greek Church, Jewish, professed, professing, Protestant, Protestants, Protestant Church, roman, Roman Church, the Greek, Turkish
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