A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.
Julius Wellhausen

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.
Julius Wellhausen

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
Ralph A. Cram

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.
Jane Haddam

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.
Stephen Cohen

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.
George Gillespie

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
Mary Harris Jones

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.
John Nelson Darby

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
Timothy Radcliffe

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 far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle

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. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.
Jennifer Beals