A reliable academic resource for high school and college students.
Essay database with free papers will provide you with original and creative ideas.
Essay database with free papers will provide you with original and creative ideas.
Quotations
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. SwiftPapers now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Protestant
«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the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date.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.»
«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
«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»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Principles,
Protestantism,
Religion
| Keywords:
colonies, colony, dissent, dissidence, Northern, prevalent, Protestant, Protestantism, Protestants, refinement, refinements, the colonies
«The major contribution of Protestant thought to the knowledge of mankind is its massive proof that God is a bore»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
bore, contribution, major, massive, proof, Protestant, Protestants, The Knowledge
«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
«The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Civilization,
Religion
| Keywords:
gunpowder, printing, Protestant, Protestants
«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
«I join you, therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American history, den, Protestant
