Best Reformation Sayings
89 Reformation quotes by 75 unique authors
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I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express…
— Elizabeth I
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The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation.
— Reinhard Bonnke
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REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.
— R C Sproul
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right…
— Martin Luther
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A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel…
— Douglas Wilson
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You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.
— Richard Baxter
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A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as…
— Frank Bartleman
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We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life. ... We are all children of a Heavenly Father who…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus,…
— Gordon Clark
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We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
— Norman Douglas
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Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church…
— Peter Slipper
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And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white…
— Gerhard Richter
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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small…
— H. L. Mencken
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But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.
— John Dryden
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I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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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
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The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people…
— Os Guinness
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You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had…
— Nate Silver
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