Art Quote by Lord Acton

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Due partly to the influence of the Genevan Academy and partly to the Institutes, Calvin’s theological influence was soon felt in various parts of…

— Justo L. González

And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public…

— Sam Harris

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous…

— Charles Hodge

“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time of graduation…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— William Cunningham

Every reformation ruins somebody.

— Amelia B. Edwards

Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Luther and Calvin were as dogmatic and intolerant as the Church had been. For those who had to decide whether to become Protestant or…

— John Rawls

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son…

— Henry David Thoreau

By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin