Reformation Quotes

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation.

— John Waters

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

— George Gillespie

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination

— Anonymous

“There is nothing real like reformation.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

— Hannah More

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

— Oscar Wilde

My conscience is captive to the Word of God

— Martin Luther

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

— Julius Wellhausen

The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.

— Agnes Strickland

The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.

— M. R. DeHaan

“From generation to generation, America should never be the same country.”

— Bryant McGill

“Wherever the Reformation took hold the Bible replaced the Pope as the final spiritual authority.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.”

— William Wilberforce

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

— William Wilberforce

“If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way?”

— D.R. Silva

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We…

— David Cameron

“That Word, which had created the world out of nothing, was certainly capable of producing the reformation the entire church needed, and…

— Justo L. González

The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of…

— Lewis Sperry Chafer

“to a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

— John Flavel

They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.

— Charles Robert Maturin

“I’ve often wondered why the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, rather than in Poland. Then I realize that Luther had to…

— Jarod Kintz

During the centuries-long process of Reformation and Enlightenment, Christian churches had to accept some things they didn't like. Islam will have to…

— Wolfgang Schauble

Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for…

— Thomas Jefferson

Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it…

— Ivan Illich

We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life. ... We are all children of a…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle...…

— Thomas Jefferson

A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have…

— Anonymous

The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to…

— Thomas McKean

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

The Holy Spirit began to move mightily. As we continued to worship, I sensed that the birthing spirit was sweeping over us…

— Bill Hamon

“Catholic gossip and folklore, as one might term it, contributed to this demonizing legend around the conflict with the Protestants. At Geila…

— Euan Cameron

“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Luther’s breakthrough had a dazzling, corrosive simplicity to it. The power of those twin principles, “faith alone” and “Scripture alone,” lay in…

— Alec Ryrie

What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into…

— Salman Rushdie

“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized…

— John Adams

“The history of the church seems to indicate to us two positions as true, with reference to this matter,—viz. lst, That assurance…

— William Cunningham

“Lo! my God, without merit on my part, of His pure and free mercy, has given to me (an unworthy, condemned, and…

— Martin Luther

“Scholars have argued that without humanism the Reformation could not have succeeded, and it is certainly difficult to imagine the Reformation occurring…

— Steven Ozment