Reformation Quotes
89 quotes by 78 authors
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From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to…
— David Cameron
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we…
— Carter Heyward
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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days…
— Mark Twain
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The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years,…
— Thomas Paine
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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…
— Benjamin Franklin
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If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.
— Vavasor Powell
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Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.
— George Gillespie
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The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.
— M R DeHaan
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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…
— H.G. Wells
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The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and…
— Thomas McKean
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What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat…
— Natalie Angier
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You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else.…
— Jennifer Beals
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The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.
— Reza Aslan
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The failure of the reformation to capture France had left for the Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of…
— Will Durant
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Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.
— Samuel Rutherford
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How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he had taken a…
— Harry S. Truman
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I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me... Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims…
— Irshad Manji
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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
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If Dr. Mahathir thinks that by ordering the police to act like gangsters he will frighten the people from supporting this reformation movement, he is…
— Wan Azizah Wan Ismail
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