“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
The Spirit is testifying that a new day is dawning. The stage of the world is being set for a fullness of… — Mark Chironna 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
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
“Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The… — Hughes Oliphant Old Copy Share Image
Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“The Reformation biblical faith in God[50] had radically desacralized [entgöttert] the world. Thus the ground was prepared in which rational and empirical… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society… — Hilaire Belloc 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
“The teaching authority of the magisterium had been seriously weakened through the obvious difficulties raised for such a concept of authority by… — Alister E. McGrath 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
Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and… — Roger Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
We don't have to go around as the Protestant reformation did, or as the socialist revolution did, and execute each other as… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“It has been broadly observed that the first Reformation of the early 1500s placed the Bible in the hands of the people… — Greg Ogden Copy Share Image
If Dr. Mahathir thinks that by ordering the police to act like gangsters he will frighten the people from supporting this reformation… — Wan Azizah Wan Ismail Copy Share Image
“How can a reformation of the whole people be brought about if it is common knowledge that the Church itself is bent… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Protestantism, of course, is much more explicitly divided into different traditions - the Pentecostals, the Anglicans. But there is the main tradition… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation.… — Peter Slipper Copy Share Image
We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“If, instead of saying that thieves will go to prison or liars will go to hell, we could make people think that… — Fitzroy Somerset Raglan Copy Share Image
A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too… — Frank Bartleman Copy Share Image
Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“… as to the better centuries that are coming, the artist was surely right. His error lay, in supposing that his age,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church was derived from three sources. Its sacred history was Jewish, its theology was Greek, its government and canon law… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The idea that the word of God should be permitted to cal- cify slowly into a language normal people can’t read is… — Mark L. Ward Jr Copy Share Image
The people of North America, at this time, expect a revisal and reformation of the American Governments, and are better disposed to… — 1st Baronet Sir Francis Bernard Copy Share Image
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know -… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image