“Oh pleasure, you're indeed a pleasant thing, / Although one must be damned for you no doubt. / I make a resolution… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“Too often historians, beguiled by the theories of anthropologists and sociologists, fascinated by the possibilities of their theoretical categories, have forgotten that… — Margo Todd Copy Share Image
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Back in the 1540s, Pope Paul III had started the repressive measures of the Counter-Reformation to crack down on the growth of… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“Fearful of change, the Iberian peninsula77 failed to develop at the same pace as the rest of Europe and missed out on… — Christopher Lascelles Copy Share Image
I still hope. I wouldn't be in this position if I didn't. I love the church. I love the Bible. But I… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life. ... We are all children of a… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to… — Thomas McKean Copy Share Image
The processes of secularization that followed in the wake of the Reformation continue to work themselves out in complicated ways, not only… — Brad Stephan Gregory Copy Share Image
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle...… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
“The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism,… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“Often men have acted as though one has to choose between reformation and revival. Some call for reformation, others for revival, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The common Calvinist experience of life as a refugee, or of being part of a host community that received refugees, led to… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
“There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
“For the humanists, whatever authority Scripture might possess derived from the original texts in their original languages, rather than from the Vulgate,… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“The medieval period based its scriptural exegesis upon the Vulgate translation of the Bible. There was no authorized version of this text,… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Luther and the Reformation were of fundamental importance to Denmark. We Danes are still Lutherans today. We spoke about him a lot… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
“A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the reformation of marijuana laws is something that I take seriously. I think it's something that can… — Asher Roth Copy Share Image
The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Now I know not anything that will contribute more to the furtherance of this good work than the bringing of family religion… — Joel R. Beeke Copy Share Image
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We get called dishonoring for pointing out the garbage in the church, yet nobody ever seems to think it's dishonoring that somebody… — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with… — Carl R Trueman Copy Share Image
Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or… — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
