Quotes about Protestant Church

Joseph MacRory

The Protestant Church in Ireland – and the same is true of the Protestant Church anywhere – is not only not the rightful representative of the early Irish Church, but it is not even a part of the Church of Christ.

This is an excellent example of the many public insults that the Irish religious leaders hurled at each other exacerbating the intercommunal tension between the Catholics and Protestants. There were amost no Irish leaders of either religion who tried to dampen the animosity and conflict.

Henry Fielding

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.

Paul Washer

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!

Frederick Buechner

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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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.

Henry George Grey

The Protestant Church is regarded by the great mass of the Irish people as an active cause of oppression and misery.

Many Protestant Englishmen were shocked to hear this, having little familiarity with the details of the functioning of the Church of England—the Established Church of Great Britain—in Ireland and the contribution of the Church to the discrimination against Irish Catholics and the poverty of Ireland.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.

Quentin Crisp

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

Sally Quinn

I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.

Jackson County

Church affiliation, protestant, endorsed by Tom and Joe

In 1922 Harry Truman first sought elected office as a Jackson County judge. Next to his name on the ballot appeared this statement. The “Tom and Joe” referred to were two Catholic political bosses in Missouri. People in Missouri were very much opposed to Catholics being in an elected office. The statement was false and was arranged by the Ku Klux Klan, who opposed Truman for his non-racist stance towards Blacks.

Andy Dick

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.

Protestant Church Quotes