The Reformation Quotes

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

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

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. — Norman Douglas

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

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 Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation. — Reinhard Bonnke

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

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

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons. — Oscar Wilde

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation. — Jane Haddam

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation. — John Dryden

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed. — Bryant McGill

God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners. — William Wilberforce

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit. — Samuel Johnson

From generation to generation, America should never be the same country. — Bryant McGill

The reformation of society and restoration of spirituality should be our goal as Christians — Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right. — G.K. Chesterton

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

It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation. — Edward Gibbon

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

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

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor. — Ignatius Of Loyola

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation. — Samuel Rutherford

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

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

Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction. — Michael Bassey Johnson

thought that was the whole idea of the German Reformation. To abolish priestly intercession. — Philip Kerr

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

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian. — William Godwin

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior
BEFORE the Reformation. — John Waters

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

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

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

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