Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination--everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignor...ant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Coming to Rome, much labour and little profit! The King whom you seek here, unless you bring Him with you you will not find Him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our religion ... is itself profoundly sad--a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants... full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language--so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is "w...hat should be." Now, if you're taught to live up to a "what should be" that never existed--only an occult superstition, no proof of this "should be"Mthen you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines..., relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution,--there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Catholics think of grace as a supernatural power which God dispenses, primarily through the Church and its sacraments, to purify t...he souls of naturally sinful human beings, and render them capable of holiness.... Protestants think of grace as an attribute of God rather than a gift from God. It is a shorthand term signifying God's determination to love, forgive, and save His human children, however little they deserve it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetti...ng and accursed principle of action--that the end will sanction any means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »