Religious freedom Quote by Rodney Stark

The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole…

— Walter Wink

“The wars of religion that followed the Protestant Reformation caused many people to view religion as nothing more than an ideology with the potential…

— Jeremiah Vallery

“One of the accusations made against the Pope is that he did not give a public and obvious denunciation of anti-Semitism during the Holocaust.…

— Michael Coren

“[Martin] Luther was a kind, warm-hearted man. But he attacked anyone he felt was an enemy of Christ. The worst side of him was…

— Michael Mullett

I believe that it is truly important for everyone to confront in dialogue the historical reality of the Reformation, its consequences and the responses…

— Pope Francis

“Back in the 1540s, Pope Paul III had started the repressive measures of the Counter-Reformation to crack down on the growth of reformers, Lutherans,…

— Benjamin Blech

“The Protestant reformation gave a big boost to literacy, spawned dissent and heresies, and promoted scepticism and refusal of authority that is at the…

— Christopher Lascelles

“The only common feature of the three successful Reformations was their rejection of papal authority; otherwise they were quite at odds.”

— Rodney Stark

“The Protestant Reformation did not merely seek to cleanse the church and deliver it from doctrinal errors, but it also sought the restoration of…

— Henry R Van Til

“Now I know not anything that will contribute more to the furtherance of this good work than the bringing of family religion more into…

— Joel R. Beeke

The discussion which was made by Luther, Melancthon, and the other persons who preceded the Reformation, opened the eyes or the public; and they…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Every reformation ruins somebody.

— Amelia B. Edwards