Christian Divisions Quotes

The Turks have always owed their power to the dissensions of Christendom.

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.

Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

When I think how much my Protestant brothers and sisters are missing in not having Christ's Real Presence in the Eucharist; when I kneel before the Eucharist and realize I am as truly in Christ's presence as the apostles were but that my Protestant brothers and sisters don't know that, don't believe that - I at first feel a terrible gap between myself and them. What a tremendous thing they are missing!

I knew there would be some controversy over the 'Potter' series between religious people and secular-minded people - that was inevitable - what astonished me and continues to astonish me is the intense controversy that erupted very early on among Christians themselves, in all the churches. It cuts across every denominational line.

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.

The egotistical Mohammed, to serve his own ends, revised history to discredit known events in order to unite the descendants of Hagar, a slave, who bore Abram his son Ishmael; a child who was not to be of the covenant. In a sense Mohammed was the forerunner of the Protestant pick-and-choose mentality that is now running rampant even in the Catholic Church

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.