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  • Frau Elena is a Protestant nun from Alsace who is more fond of children than of supervision.†   (source)
  • Is she a Protestant?†   (source)
  • Deborah and I came from very different cultures: I grew up white and agnostic in the Pacific Northwest, my roots half New York Jew and half Midwestern Protestant; Deborah was a deeply religious black Christian from the South.†   (source)
  • It was my first time in Amsterdam; I'd seen almost nothing of the city and yet the room itself, in its bleak, drafty, sunscrubbed beauty, gave a keen sense of Northern Europe, a model of the Netherlands in miniature: whitewash and Protestant probity, co-mingled with deep-dyed luxury brought in merchant ships from the East.†   (source)
  • These two were on foreign ground; this was a sternly Protestant village where the Pope was seen as a second cousin of the devil himself.†   (source)
  • Suffolk High had this graduation ceremony where the seniors lined up in their caps and gowns outside the high school and marched onto Main Street double file to the Protestant church for a ceremony.†   (source)
  • As the Protestants came into power, he was enthusiastic in his persecution of Roman Catholics and other religions.†   (source)
  • The city's stern Protestant upper class saw him as a civic satyr whose tolerance of prostitution, gambling and alcohol had allowed the city's vice districts, most notably the Levee—home of the infamous bartender and robber Mickey Finn—to swell to new heights of depravity.†   (source)
  • Morrison is American, of course, and raised in the Protestant tradition, but the Bible is nonsectarian.†   (source)
  • White, American, Protestant.†   (source)
  • After World War I, the heavily German character of Anaheim gave way to the influence of newer arrivals from the Midwest, who tended to be Protestant and conservative and evangelical about their faith.†   (source)
  • There was a sense of Protestant disrepair about her, a collapsed aura in which her body struggled to survive.†   (source)
  • Except at one, when he thought it a good idea to sing "When I Wake Up in Glory," a beautiful and moving funeral song from Louisiana, and he was told to be quiet by the priest, who could not understand that Protestant intrusion in his church.†   (source)
  • It is as though two old friends, a Catholic and Protestant, were sitting drinking beer, enjoying life, and the subject of birth control somehow came up.†   (source)
  • Protestants practice confession, too, though a little less formally, often confiding in God without an intermediary.†   (source)
  • Since the days of the Reformation, Protestantism has been characterized by its emphasis on faith.†   (source)
  • Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.†   (source)
  • That is, not every peasant practiced the indigenous religion called Voodoo, but virtually everyone, including Catholics and Protestants and Voodooists, believed in the reality of maji, of sorcery.†   (source)
  • However, they are controversial in the Protestant Church.†   (source)
  • Lansing's Protestant chaplain, the Reverend James Post, so valued it that he hung it in his office, where it hangs still: a slick and pretty Saviour, with full lips and grieving eyes.†   (source)
  • The men wore suits and the women affected the severe Protestant style of the missionaries: thick long skirts and high-necked blouses, with a blanket draped over the shoulder and a scarf wound elegantly around the head.†   (source)
  • Twenty percent of the population was Mexican; they lived together in their Catholic enclaves and mixed easily with the majority Protestant Anglos.†   (source)
  • They had the body transferred to the del Valle family tomb, in the Catholic cemetery, because they knew she would not have liked being buried among Protestants and Jews and that in death she would have wanted to remain side by side with those she had served in life.†   (source)
  • "Stay out of it, Red," Ernie shouted, "you're a Protestant.†   (source)
  • It was neither Protestantism nor asceticism that made him so enthusiastic; it was something else, something highly personal, something he did not dare discuss with Sabina.†   (source)
  • In Addis, she found her orders were canceled because the Italians had attacked, and so she had simply attached herself to a small hospital all but abandoned by the American Protestants.†   (source)
  • She was a product of the rural, poor, Protestant South.†   (source)
  • They shut up about it and sent me and my two sisters to a Protestant service one week, a Catholic mass on another, and a synagogue after that.†   (source)
  • I am Protestant, as is John, but I wish the Pope would visit our grand house and explain what or whose spirit it is that possesses it.†   (source)
  • Predominantly Protestant, Holland was known for its tolerance, for allowing religious freedom to thousands of European Jews, French Huguenots, and other Christian sects.†   (source)
  • In the Protestant homes I am told it is a Catholic problem, and in the Catholic homes, a Protestant.†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, baiting them was the one activity that the white Protestant residents concurred in.†   (source)
  • But in 1963 the population of 747,000 is overwhelmingly white, 97 percent Protestant, and growing larger and more conservative by the day, as newcomers flood in from rural Texas and Louisiana.†   (source)
  • Mexicans, he argues, do not assimilate and become truly American, because they do not embrace American values and ideals: they do not share the work ethic inherited from America's Anglo-Protestant culture; they do not have the same hunger for education; proportionately fewer go to college; fewer have incomes above $50,000 a year; fewer hold managerial positions.†   (source)
  • She'd have to ask Suzanne, even though Suzanne was Protestant, not Catholic.†   (source)
  • Six hundred Protestants, one hundred Catholics, three Jews, two Greeks, one Puerto Rican.†   (source)
  • Many of their leaders were in fact members of the Protestant clergy who believed that enslaving fellow human beings was a sin and an abomination unto the Lord.†   (source)
  • They drove the sheep down the Viale del Campo Boario and turned them inside the wall at the Protestant Cemetery.†   (source)
  • It is Anglo-Saxon and Protestant.†   (source)
  • She was a beautiful American of flawless Protestant pedigree who had worked for the CIA and, occasionally, for the Office.†   (source)
  • All that territory in the hands of Protestants and savages, while we are here to offer a better way, a truer leadership to the people of France.†   (source)
  • All in vain, however, for the man stepped out of the line; but instead of finding a gun at his temple, he was thrown backward and away as the gunmen opened fire on those remaining in the line, for these were not Protestant terrorists, but members, presumably, of the Provisional IRA.†   (source)
  • Only 138 had marked Protestant, 100 Catholic, and 46 Jewish.†   (source)
  • Another time, this was eloquently illustrated in a small community where there had been much tension between Protestants and Catholics.†   (source)
  • Leery of strong Protestant leanings in the Bohemian branch of the family, the Emperor, Rudolph II, had for a time withdrawn his patronage.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the halcyon future, I think I must have reasoned, I would meet a cuddlesome, jolly girl who would simply gather me into her with frenzied whoopees, unhindered by that embargo placed upon their flesh by the nasty little Protestants who had so tortured me in the back seats of a score of cars.†   (source)
  • Those hymns set your feet moving like the march played on the piano for us to enter Davis School—"Dorothy,an Old English Dance" was the name of that, and of course so many of the Protestant hymns reached down to us from the same place; they were old English rounds and dance tunes, and Charles Wesley and the rest had—no wonder—taken them over.†   (source)
  • He was a country boy from Virginia with a southern drawl and a dry laconic wit, a Protestant whose family had been in Virginia since 1666 and produced several generations of colonial gentry.†   (source)
  • The Protestant churches in the towns were fighting for their existence in a country where they were newcomers.†   (source)
  • It was the fault of America, of Capitalism, of White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism.†   (source)
  • So call me a protestant, and remember-now I am more than a man.†   (source)
  • George Norris was a Republican, a Midwesterner, a Protestant and a "dry," and Herbert Hoover was all of those things.†   (source)
  • MOTHER-ROBERT: Protestants and Israelites!†   (source)
  • The Protestant work ethic emphasizes diligence, discipline, and frugality.
    Protestant = of the Western churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation
  • But of course our family were Protestants, and that is different.†   (source)
  • Now, it might be worth noting that Kant was a Protestant.†   (source)
  • "The family was French Protestant," says Dr. DuPont.†   (source)
  • In the Protestant tradition, we turn to the Bible; when we want an answer, that's where we look.†   (source)
  • They'd say "for White Anglo-Saxon Protestants only.†   (source)
  • Haven't we bared our necks to the Protestant ax?†   (source)
  • Uncle Pat says he didn't know Bill Galvin was a Protestant.†   (source)
  • To a great extent they were wars between Protestants and Catholics.†   (source)
  • You can see Protestant women have perfect teeth although Halvey's Rose had lovely teeth.†   (source)
  • Grandma barks at Uncle Pat for not telling her he was dragging a Protestant into the house.†   (source)
  • Protestant girl, come with me to the True Church.†   (source)
  • The best people for tips are widows, Protestant ministers' wives and the poor in general.†   (source)
  • He looks like an ordinary Catholic and you'd never imagine a Protestant would be shoveling lime.†   (source)
  • We distribute The Irish Times, a Protestant paper, run by the freemasons in Dublin.†   (source)
  • Bared our necks to the Protestant ax, sir.†   (source)
  • All the telegram boys like Protestant ministers' wives.†   (source)
  • She goes to priests, nuns, Protestants, Quakers.†   (source)
  • Going to work for Easons he is, working for that pack of freemasons and Protestants above in Dublin.†   (source)
  • He fired a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew in fairly close succession.†   (source)
  • It was divided into four separate chambers -- Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim.†   (source)
  • Just down the street, beyond the Protestant Cemetery, is a big hill called the Testaccio.†   (source)
  • Protestants don't have to go either," Ernie nodded.†   (source)
  • I had never heard a Protestant church called a temple.†   (source)
  • She was completely unaware that with one twist of the tongue she could plunge Jean Louise into a moral turmoil by making her niece doubt her own motives and best intentions, by tweaking the protestant, philistine strings of Jean Louise's conscience until they vibrated like a spectral zither.†   (source)
  • Miss Barbara Lynch, Doctor of Theology, was the only child of the Reverend Jonathan B. Lynch, a lean black Protestant minister who rode on a mule through the povertystricken settlements in the salt marshes, preaching the word of one of the many gods that Dr. Juvenal Urbino wrote with a small g to distinguish them from his.†   (source)
  • "You may be a Catholic, child," Mr. Nielsen says—the first thing he has said to me directly—"but we are Protestant.†   (source)
  • In his religious habits, Dad lived the stereotype of a culturally conservative Protestant with Southern roots, even though the stereotype is mostly inaccurate.†   (source)
  • Catholic kids grow up with that image, but Protestant kids, especially young ones, just grow up with a general concept: "Jesus died on the cross."†   (source)
  • Toronto is no longer a Protestant city, it's a mediaeval one: the crowds clogging the street are many-hued, the clothing vivid.†   (source)
  • After a time he got into doubtful company, and was seen about with some Orangemen of bad reputation, and there was a house burnt down twenty miles away, of a Protestant gentleman that had taken the side of the Catholics, and another one found with his head bashed in.†   (source)
  • The sixty-nine members of my boot camp platoon included black, white, and Hispanic kids; rich kids from upstate New York and poor kids from West Virginia; Catholics, Jews, Protestants, and even a few atheists.†   (source)
  • I had to ask Tateh for money for the cap and gown, and the minute he heard about me marching into a Protestant church, he said, "No.†   (source)
  • Too bad neither of the ministers thought of that one, but the books of the Apocrypha are usually omitted from Protestant editions of the Bible.†   (source)
  • If a passing Protestant felt inclined to show the statue some small gesture of disrespect, the vigilant nuns would exit their guardhouse on the fly— their black habits flapping with the defiant rancorousness of crows.†   (source)
  • The passengers were Catholic and Protestant mixed, with some English and Scots come over from Liverpool thrown into the bargain; and if in a state of health, they would have squabbled and fought, as there is no love lost.†   (source)
  • "He's quite …. miraculous," the Rev. Mr. Merrill said, smiling faintly—clearly glad that the Congregationalists preferred caroling to pageants, and clearly relieved that Owen Meany had moved no farther down the Protestant rungs than the Episcopalians.†   (source)
  • The Tories appear to have confused Grace with the Irish Question, although she is a Protestant; and to consider the murder of a single Tory gentleman — however worthy the gentleman, and however regrettable the murder — to be the same thing as the insurrection of an entire race.†   (source)
  • And Mrs. Phelan put her arm around me, and folded me in her shawl, and gave me a drink from a little bottle of spirits she had by her for medicine; and said it would do me good to cry, and at least the poor thing was out of her sufferings, and in Heaven now with the blessed saints, even though she was a Protestant.†   (source)
  • Being an Englishman, he was none too welcome even among the Protestants, as they were not fond of outsiders.†   (source)
  • The gale blew itself out after two days, and there was a general thanksgiving service held for the Protestants, and there was a priest on board who said a Mass for the Catholics; and it was impossible to avoid attending both, in a manner of speaking, due to the cramped conditions; but nobody objected to it, for as I have said, the two sorts tolerated each other better than they did on land.†   (source)
  • There are reports about Protestant weddings and pictures and the women always look lovelier than the ones we know in the lanes .†   (source)
  • Angela, new mother, agitated, forgot she was holding the child and let him slip into the baptismal font, a total immersion of the Protestant type.†   (source)
  • This maddened Malachy again and he wanted to jump at the priest for calling the child some class of a Protestant.†   (source)
  • He asks Grandma if she'd mind taking down that statue because he's a Protestant and he wouldn't be able to sleep.†   (source)
  • Protestant ministers' wives would never carry on like Scrawby Luby's old widow unless they're widows themselves.†   (source)
  • Every day I take the can back Grandma makes me kneel to the statue of the Sacred Heart and tell Him I'm sorry and all this over Bill Galvin, a Protestant.†   (source)
  • If the weather is fine people are playing croquet, the Protestant game, or strolling around, talking and laughing, all decked out in flowery dresses and blazers with crests and golden buttons and you'd never know there was a war on.†   (source)
  • Croquet is a Protestant game.†   (source)
  • There are families that are ashamed of themselves because their forefathers gave up their religion for the sake of a bowl of Protestant soup during the Famine and those families are known ever after as soupers.†   (source)
  • There's a sign in an office window on O'Connell Street, SMART BOY WANTED, NEAT HANDWRITING, GOOD AT SUMS, APPLY HERE TO MANAGER, MR. MCCAFFREY, EASONS LTD. I stand outside the place of the exam, the house of the Limerick Protestant Young Men's Association.†   (source)
  • The nurse tells me go to sleep but I can't because I see people in the nineteen beds in the ward all dying and green around their mouths where they tried to eat grass and moaning for soup Protestant soup any soup and I cover my face with the pillow hoping they won't come and stand around the bed clawing at me and howling for bits of the chocolate bar my mother brought last week.†   (source)
  • If we left it up to you we'd have the poor people of Limerick jumping into the arms of the Protestants.†   (source)
  • Christy Wallace, who is a permanent telegram boy and ready to be a postman any day, says Protestants don't care what they do even if they're ministers'wives.†   (source)
  • On Sunday mornings in Limerick I watch them go to church, the Protestants, and I feel sorry for them, especially the girls, who are so lovely, they have such beautiful white teeth.†   (source)
  • Priests and masters tell us Confirmation means you're a true soldier of the Church and that entitles you to die and be a martyr in case we're invaded by Protestants or Mahommedans or any other class of a heathen.†   (source)
  • He has to be hard, says Grandma, otherwise you'd have all kinds of babies clamorin' to get into heaven, Protestants an' everything, an' why should they get in after what they did to us for eight hundred years?†   (source)
  • But the blind old woman, contrary to what everyone expected, saw nothing reproachable in Meme's going to the dances and making friends with American girls her own age as long as she kept her strict habits and was not converted to the Protestant religion.†   (source)
  • I preferred Catholic churches to Protestant ones, the more ornate the better, because there was more to look at.†   (source)
  • Separated from the elegant city center by an industrial canal, Molenbeek had once been occupied by Roman Catholic Walloons and Protestant Flemings who worked in the district's many factories and warehouses.†   (source)
  • Then, the story goes, in that split second of decision, and in the relative cover of the winter evening darkness, he felt the hand of the Protestant worker next to him take his hand and squeeze it in a signal that said no, don't move, we'll not betray you, nobody need know what faith or party you belong to.†   (source)
  • Early in their move to the Valley, Belle became a fully accepting practitioner of the vivid Protestant strain that assumed a seven-day creation of the Earth, a Great Controversy between Jesus Christ and Satan, and a millennial return of Christ into history, at which moment the dead will awaken, evil will vanish, and time will end.†   (source)
  • He has fallen in love late in life, but the girl is Catholic and Reynolds has not yet told his Protestant family, but he wears her ring on a chain around his neck, under his uniform.†   (source)
  • Since opinions vary, there are various kitsches: Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Communist, Fascist, democratic, feminist, European, American, national, international.†   (source)
  • He presented four witnesses: the Reverend James E. Post, the Protestant chaplain at Kansas State Penitentiary; Perry's Indian friend, Joe James, who after all had arrived by bus that morning, having traveled a day and two nights from his wilderness home in the Far Northwest; Donald Cullivan; and, once again, Dr. Jones.†   (source)
  • Down from the compound in Butanza -- the family hadn't yet moved onto the mountain Runda -- up along paths that cut through pastures and banana groves and gardens of beans, and quickly through a dense wood where, he'd heard people say, bad spirits lurked, then down again to a stream bottom, a small piece of open flat land, where sometimes he and his classmates would meet up with kids from the Protestant school in Nanga and play soccer, or fight, or both.†   (source)
  • Objecting to Huntington's use of the term "Anglo-Protestant" to describe American culture, Brooks argues, "There are no significant differences between Mexican-American lifestyles and other American lifestyles.†   (source)
  • Pleased to be in a Protestant country once more, the family attended church regularly, riding to the village of Hackney to hear the celebrated liberal preacher and champion of America, Richard Price, who was to become a valued friend.†   (source)
  • In Protestant churches throughout the South, Dinner on the Ground is nothing more than a big picnic held at dinnertime, which to us is the noon meal.†   (source)
  • He had at once placed twelve-year-old Patsy in the most fashionable and most expensive convent school in Paris, the Abbaye Royale de Panthemont on the Left Bank, where to Protestant students, he was assured, no word was ever spoken of religion, but where presumably she would be safe from social influences he thought wholly unsuitable for her.†   (source)
  • The Protestants usually won.†   (source)
  • Yet the grimness of it faded for a while, at dinner on the ground at the Protestant churches, where people sat on the springtime grass and ate potato salad and sipped sweet tea from an aluminum tub with a huge block of ice floating in it.†   (source)
  • In the parable of Yamacraw there was a time when the black people supported themselves well, worked hard, and lived up to the sacred tenets laid down in the Protestant ethic.†   (source)
  • Ever since puberty my sessions of autoerotism, although fairly inventive, had in general been conducted with the firm hand of Protestant moderation; this night, though, my longing was like a stampede and I was virtually trampled beneath it.†   (source)
  • With her old-fashioned Protestant views of life, sex was not a subject civilized people discussed openly around the house.†   (source)
  • Surely Smith could have little support in Nebraska, which was also Republican, Midwestern, Protestant and dry by nature.†   (source)
  • …Motleys Rise of the Dutch Republic, an 80-year-old pamphlet on the roots of modern anarchism, a book of sermons by Blobb's brother Augustine also among Bortz's Wharfingeriana, along with Blobb's original clues, Oedipa was able to fit together this account of how the organization began: In 1577, the northern provinces of the Low Countries, led by the Protestant noble William of Orange, had been struggling nine years for independence from Catholic Spain and a Catholic Holy Roman Emperor.†   (source)
  • They'd sent him home and he'd married a girl he'd gone with most of his life--a Protestant, and so, with a shrug, because his parents were the kind who would bite their lips and weep a little and forgive it, he too became a Protestant, a Methodist like his wife, whatever that meant.†   (source)
  • Like some purifying ritual, he repeated his life story to me, the Protestant ethic, the unassailable formula of the American dream, Horatio Alger in the cotton mills, Henry Piedmont, child of poverty, man of paramount success, a golfing buddy of Jesus, had given me the green light to go to Washington.†   (source)
  • He remarked loudly what a great success it was and how marvelous that the Protestants and Catholics had finally worked together to make it a success.†   (source)
  • The church bell sounding intermittently through my slumber was not entirely unmusical, but it had a clangorous, hollow, Protestant ring, as if fashioned of low-priced alloys; demonically, in the midst of my turbulent erotic visions, it tolled with the voice of sin.†   (source)
  • It is possible for a man in public life to separate his religious beliefs from his political activities…… I am a Protestant and a dry, yet I would support a man who was a wet and a Catholic provided I believed he was sincerely in favor of law enforcement and was right on economic issues…… I'd rather trust an honest wet who is progressive and courageous in his makeup than politicians who profess to be on the dry side but do no more to make prohibition effective than all the rum runners…†   (source)
  • The matron belonged to a fundamentalist Protestant sect presided over by two women preachers who practiced faith healing in services in which hysteria ran high.†   (source)
  • In your truly Protestant department, where after his day of professionally indifferent justice (strained, bent, dented here and there by the age-old hammerings of low pay and temptation always too ready-at-hand, by anger, boredom, and the despair which comes with dealing out more justice than any policeman gets), the man of the force goes home to a wife who involves him, as soon as he crosses his threshold, in excuse-making and bribery and pointless anger of his own; and lest he begin…†   (source)
  • They stood motionless in their dark suits, even the children motionless, and when they bowed or knelt or crossed themselves--all but the half-dozen Protestants there--they did it together, as though by a single impulse in their hearts.†   (source)
  • …disconsolate, largely inscrutable mystery of her race; and then later I experienced a grander empathy with Jewish folk which, I am persuaded, is chiefly available to those Southerners shattered for years and years by rock-hard encounter with the anguish of Abraham and Moses' stupendous quest and the Psalmist's troubled hosannas and the abyssal vision of Daniel and all the other revelations, bittersweet confections, tall tales and beguiling horrors of the Protestant/Jewish Bible.†   (source)
  • "When do us Protestants get a chance to eat, father" "I don't know anything about it.†   (source)
  • The newspaper was thin, ill-edited, and designed to circulate among rural, white Protestant readers.†   (source)
  • No, darling, between a Catholic and a Protestant.†   (source)
  • Religiously, we're 85% Protestants; 12% Catholics; Rest, indifferent.†   (source)
  • This state is a Protestant region and a daughter in a convent would politically ruin me.†   (source)
  • Protestants always think Catholic priests are spies.†   (source)
  • A much-loved Protestant friend once read some of her Bible to me and I found it as I have said.†   (source)
  • Some Protestant organization was giving a celebration for the poor of all faiths.†   (source)
  • Katie couldn't see it--Catholic children at a Protestant party.†   (source)
  • " "The Protestant Bible and Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • It is the Bible that the Protestant people read.†   (source)
  • She had gotten it into her head that the Protestants were more refined than the Catholics.†   (source)
  • Protestants might have been living there before.†   (source)
  • Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music.†   (source)
  • It was the same in the days of Papist and Protestant, or Stuart and Orangeman, who would meet together with shillelaghs in their hands and murder in their hearts.†   (source)
  • It was she who objected to the neighboring Protestant preachers and gave the matter into Ashley's hands, marking passages in her book for him to read.†   (source)
  • Theirs were the traditional ideals of the Protestant ethic: hard work, frugality, temperance, and a touch of ability applied long and hard enough would lift a man into the propertied or professional class and give him independence and respect if not wealthand prestige.†   (source)
  • Into this zone now trooped, each evening, Kiyoshi Tanimoto and four other Protestant ministers and, with them, a trumpeter and a drummer tooting, and thumping "Onward, Christian Soldiers."†   (source)
  • Father Latour began to tell them about his friendly relations with Protestants in Ohio, but they had not room in their minds for two ideas; there was one Church, and the rest of the world was infidel.†   (source)
  • Announced by violent trumpetings in the Protestant churches, the day of atonement dawned on a seasoned army of well drilled teetotalers.†   (source)
  • Protestant ministers, and Catholic prie,rs can sometimes be brought to reconcile, on a broad basis, their theoretical diffc,,ne,— yet ,henever thsy I,,stn so describe the rules and irgulations by which eternal life is to he achieved, they hopelessly differ.†   (source)
  • And in this pillage of the loaded shelves, he found himself wedged firmly into the grotesque pattern of Protestant fiction which yields the rewards of Dionysus to the loyal disciples of John Calvin, panting and praying in a breath, guarding the plumtree with the altar fires, outdoing the pagan harlot with the sanctified hussy.†   (source)
  • The heritage of free thought,—which no man could escape if he read at all,—the spirit of the Protestant ethic which one suckled, figuratively, with one's mother's milk, that self-generating energy that made a man feel, whether he realized it or not, that he had to work and redeem himself through his own acts, all this was forbidden, taboo.†   (source)
  • The modem world is apt to forget that several people were Christians in the remote past, and in Lancelot's time there were no Protestants—except John Scotus Erigena.†   (source)
  • …as the divinity within the heart, meanwhile leading one's life in the world as the servant of this god (Early and Medieval Christianity); (3) a rejection of most of the instruments supporting meditation, meanwhile, however, continuing to lead one's life in the world as the servant or vehicle of the god whom one has ceased to visualize (Protestant Christianity): (4) an attempt to interpret Jesus as a model human being, but without accepting his ascetic path (Liberal Christianity).†   (source)
  • Father Latour tried to tell the Indian that in a Protestant country the one thing a Roman priest could not do was to interfere in matters of Government.†   (source)
  • In the black Protestant church I entered a new world; prim, brown, puritanical girls who taught in the public schools; black college students who tried to conceal their plantation origin; black boys and girls emerging self-consciously from adolescence; wobbly-bosomed black and yellow church matrons; black janitors and porters who sang proudly in the choir; subdued redcaps and carpenters who served as deacons; meek, blank-eyed black and yellow washerwomen who shouted and moaned and…†   (source)
  • In the middle of it Rex just telegraphed to papa: 'Julia and I prefer wedding ceremony take place by Protestant rites.†   (source)
  • The school was now well established, reckoned a benefit to the community by Protestants as well as Catholics, and the trees were bearing.†   (source)
  • They were Protestants, very hostile to the Roman Church, and they did not allow her to go to Mass or to receive the visits of a priest.†   (source)
  • The Smiths were the leaders of a small group of low-caste Protestants who took every occasion to make trouble for the Catholics.†   (source)
  • It is not fitting for a good Catholic to say so but I believe that the Protestant Bible contains more of the loveliness of the greatest story on this earth and beyond it.†   (source)
  • She dissolved the marriage very simply by telling her husband, a Protestant, that since the Catholic Church didn't recognize her marriage, she didn't recognize it either and she now announced her freedom.†   (source)
  • " "A Protestant Bible?"†   (source)
  • The blackest protestant in the land would not speak the language I have heard this evening.†   (source)
  • I'm a Protestant—our church does not forbid divorce in such cases."†   (source)
  • If a Protestant had done that it would no doubt have awakened a self-consciousness in the girl.†   (source)
  • "I glory in my Protestantism!" she said severely.†   (source)
  • Protestant as she was, Lucy darted forward.†   (source)
  • "Why, sir," replied the captain, "I am a true-blue Protestant, and I thank God for it."†   (source)
  • In the little Protestant churches they gathered on Sunday to hear of God and his works.†   (source)
  • She was a prosaic soul, this Protestant nurse.†   (source)
  • —Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?†   (source)
  • "Oh yes," Nancy said, "the Brands are Protestants."†   (source)
  • There used always be crowds of Protestants in the chapel where Father Tom was preaching.†   (source)
  • —I am no protestant, I tell you again, said Mr Casey, flushing.†   (source)
  • That was the meaning of TOWER OF IVORY but protestants could not understand it and made fun of it.†   (source)
  • Before the controversy was terminated, an inroad of Protestants had come to aid the soldier.†   (source)
  • No one knew what her faith was—Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox.†   (source)
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