Reformation Quotes
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Delayed answers often set the heart searching itself, and so lead to contrition and spiritual reformation - deadly
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I've learned that even the word 'jubilee' used in connection with the Reformation can give rise to discussions.
— Angela Merkel
Let us reject this decree. In matters of conscience the majority has no power.
Merle d'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5. — Ellen G. White
Merle d'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5. — Ellen G. White
It's time for a new Reformation in the Church
to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis. — Ken Ham
to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis. — Ken Ham
You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.
— Richard Baxter
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
— Norman Douglas
They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.
— Charles Robert Maturin
The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.
— Agnes Strickland
No churches are empty, where the doctrines of the reformation are duly urged, with purity and energy, upon the people's minds.(Rowland Hill)
— Edwin Sidney
My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.
— Lauren Willig
The struggle within Turkey that continues to this day is the legacy of Kemal Ataturk's radical reformation,
— Eric Bogosian
Without the advent of printing, there would have been no Reformation, and there might well have been no Protestantism either.
— Alister E. McGrath
The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit.
— Lewis Sperry Chafer
A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.
— M. R. DeHaan
If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way?
— D.R. Silva
Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.
— Saki
To a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
First know the Self and then talk of social reformation.
— Abhijit Naskar
Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.
— Daisaku Ikeda
I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.
— Jane Haddam
We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef
— Robert Lacey
Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.
— Bryant McGill
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
— H.G.Wells
Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.
— Francis Schaeffer
Revolutions arise from obstinacy. People are dissatisfied with what they are told and they develop new ideas.
— Dirk Kurbjuweit
The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.
— Samuel Johnson
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
— William Godwin
A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
— David Ignatius
They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.
— Saul Alinsky
God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.
— William Wilberforce
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The real church is comprised of a long list of "formers" who collectively work together for world reform.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.
— Daisaku Ikeda
If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.
— Vavasor Powell
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
— Mary Harris Jones
The church should become a place of regeneration and reformation
— Sunday Adelaja
Only a true faith that applies God's Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.
— R.C. Sproul
The church and every Christian are individually responsible for the reformation of the country
— Sunday Adelaja
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
— Timothy Radcliffe
The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."
— Hilaire Belloc
To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time.
— Gary North
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
— Ignatius Of Loyola
Effective time management is instrumental for economic reformation.
— Sunday Adelaja
As far as I'm concerned, the reformation of marijuana laws is something that I take seriously. I think it's something that can stimulate the economy.
— Asher Roth
The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.
— Benjamin Franklin
Universal literacy, taken for granted today, was a direct result of the Reformation's reemphasis upon the centrality of Bible reading,
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.
— Stanley Hauerwas
It is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.
— George Gillespie
Before my secret meeting with the Pope I asked him to come wearing white if deep down he agreed with the Reformation. Pretty crazy.
— Kevin DeYoung
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
— Edmund Burke
Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.
— Ellen G. White
Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.
— L.M. Montgomery
thought that was the whole idea of the German Reformation. To abolish priestly intercession.
— Philip Kerr
Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.
— Samuel Rutherford
Truly, these times of ignorance God overlook, but now he commanded all men everywhere to repent." Acts 17: 30
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it's now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?
— Irshad Manji
And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.
— Julius Wellhausen
The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.
— John Nelson Darby
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?
— William Matthews
The reformation of society and restoration of spirituality should be our goal as Christians
— Sunday Adelaja
I believe the Reformation is greater than the revolution.
— Joseph C. Morecraft III
The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction.
— Patrick Hamilton
Remorse is the poison of life. Reformation may be its cure.
— Charlotte Bronte
God wants the church to become the initiator of the reformation and changes in the society
— Sunday Adelaja