Europe Quote by Julien Benda Download Open image “All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.” — Julien Benda ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Europe Followed Including Luther
Luther and the Reformation were of fundamental importance to Denmark. We Danes are still Lutherans today. We spoke about him a lot in school,… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther. — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
Many young Danish theologians went to Wittenberg starting in 1517, listened to Luther's theses and, in 1536, brought the Reformation to our country. This… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it while he… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Yet is all this fair to Erasmus? Was he not the one who made the Greek New Testament available, so providing the coals for… — Michael Reeves Copy Share Image
Luther exerted a strong influence on Denmark. Suddenly Danish theologians were preaching in Danish and translating the Bible into Danish. — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
“Luther’s breakthrough had a dazzling, corrosive simplicity to it. The power of those twin principles, “faith alone” and “Scripture alone,” lay in the word… — Alec Ryrie Copy Share Image
With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined. — Diana Butler Bass Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] most recent trip was to Sweden, where he commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. That had triggered one of the… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
“the history of Protestantism is very great. It presents like no other of Luther's writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Luther argues that when we fail to believe that God accepts us fully in Christ, and look to some other way to justify or… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Luther's teaching was recognised by thousands to be no startling novelty, but something which they had always at heart believed,” — Thomas M. Lindsay Copy Share Image
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am,"… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism exhorts him… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, César Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Bayern is always a team that can win the Champions League title in Europe. — Lothar Matthaus Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We witness anti-Semitic attacks in the heart of Europe. We hear anti-Semitic slanders in European media. We feel anti-Semitic hatred in the continent that… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe. — Hidetoshi Nakata Copy Share Image
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image