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“I get a glimpse of the mind of many souls from their sacred books.”

Book:Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

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“Scholars have argued that without humanism the Reformation could not have succeeded, and it is certainly difficult to imagine the Reformation occurring without the knowledge of languages, the critical handling of sources, the satirical attacks on clerics and scholastics, and the new national feeling that a generation of humanists provided. On the other hand, the long-term success of the humanists owed something to the Reformation. In Protestant schools and universities classical culture found a permanent home. The humanist curriculum, with its stress on languages and history, became a lasting model for the arts curriculum.”

Reformation Protestants Liberal Arts Scholastics Humanists The University

Book:The Age of Reform 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

Source: The Age of Reform 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

“Another confusing thing about Protestants: they ask “What would Jesus do?” then they give themselves Lego man haircuts and vote Republican and avoid the wrong side of town. Jesus was a bearded, long-haired socialist who hung out with lepers; someone those prigs would call a wild man.”

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Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“The common Calvinist experience of life as a refugee, or of being part of a host community that received refugees, led to lasting international connections between individuals and communities...As churches became established in Switzerland, the Palatinate, Scotland, England and Bearn, and the churches in the Netherlands, France, Hungary and Poland battled for legal recognition and survival, princely courts, noble houses, universities and colleges also became locations for interactions between many Calvinists. Theologians, clergy, students, booksellers, merchants, diplomats, courtiers and military officers became involved in networks of personal contacts, correspondence, teaching and negotiation.”

Reformation Protestants Calvinism Reformed

Book:Beyond Calvin: The Intellectual, Political and Cultural World of Europe's Reformed Churches, c. 1540-1620

Source: Beyond Calvin: The Intellectual, Political and Cultural World of Europe's Reformed Churches, c. 1540-1620

“In their churches the Protestants taught believers to go out of the four walls of the church to demonstrate their love for God by how they serve fellow humans”

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Author:Sunday Adelaja

“All of anarchism, libertarianism, and anti-Statism can be traced back to the rise of Protestantism. The USA - founded by Protestants (often extremist Protestants expelled from their own countries) is where the love of the individual and hatred of the collective is practically written into its Constitution, which is extremely Protestant in its character.”

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Book:The Quality Agenda: The Search for Excellence

Source: The Quality Agenda: The Search for Excellence

“Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world”

World Protestants Up Inventions 90

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling”

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Author:Sunday Adelaja

“I wished to take her hand in my hand and become one with the silence of the night so that I could be her shadow and she could be my silver lining.”

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Book:Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel

Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel

“We call ourselves Protestants, but we have totally departed from the teachings of the early Protestants. Martin Luther, John Wesley and John Calvin would turn in their graves, if they hear the kind of teachings we are now feeding the people of God with.”

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Author:Sunday Adelaja

“Because believing in the inerrancy and absolute authority of the Bible is so widespread today, it is important to realize that this is a Protestant phenomenon. Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians (together the vast majority of Christians who have ever lived) have never taught it.”

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Book:Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most

Source: Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most

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