Reformation Quotes

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 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 in that way.
Christopher Hitchens

Islam, Saying, Keep

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.
David Cameron

History, Revolution, Write

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 widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
Nate Silver

Before, Times, Ideas

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

Education, Journey

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

Thinking, Since, Morality

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

God, Character, True

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

Power, Important, Through

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

Yourself, Evil, Someone

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

Place, Within, Facts

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

Result, Finally, Historical

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

History, Write, Maybe

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

War, Country, Leader

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 has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.
Peter Slipper

Faith, Help, Person

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

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