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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
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
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
First know the Self and then talk of social reformation.
— Abhijit Naskar
I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.
— Jane Haddam
The real church is comprised of a long list of "formers" who collectively work together for world reform.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
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
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
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
— William Godwin
thought that was the whole idea of the German Reformation. To abolish priestly intercession.
— Philip Kerr
Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
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
God wants the church to become the initiator of the reformation and changes in the society
— Sunday Adelaja
The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."
— Hilaire Belloc
Remorse is the poison of life. Reformation may be its cure.
— Charlotte Bronte
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
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
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
The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction.
— Patrick Hamilton
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