Reformation Quotes

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  Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

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  There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.

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• Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Practice, Sound Doctrine, Return

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• From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Fall, Angel

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• You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

  Martin Luther

  Responsibility, Responsible, Inspirational Kindness

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• My conscience is captive to the Word of God

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Christian, Worms

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1955). “Works”

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• The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Ideas, Always Trying

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.241, Xist Publishing

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• Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Marriage, Sorry

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• I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Three, Firsts

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• I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Teacher, Heart

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• We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Mad, World

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• A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.

  Douglas Wilson

  Christian, Rome, Two

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• You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

  Richard Baxter

  Richard Baxter, William Brown (M.D.), Daniel Wilson (1829). “The Reformed Pastor by R. Baxter”, p.160

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• I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Believe, Roots

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• Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Atheism, Reform

  Biographia Literaria ch. 1 (1817)

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• If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wine, Heart, Broken

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• The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Persons, Helpless

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• The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Mean, Men

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.69, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Samuel Rutherford (1845). “The Trial and Triumph of Faith”, p.8

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• 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 Adams Cram

  Philosophy, Important, Christianity

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• The Spirit is testifying that a new day is dawning. The stage of the world is being set for a fullness of a harvest and a genuine apostolic reformation in a new way.

  Mark Chironna

  New Day, World, Way

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• [Pope Francis] most recent trip was to Sweden, where he commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. That had triggered one of the biggest splits in Christianity and decades of religious wars. He went so far as to praise Luther, who was once considered a heretic in the church, as a great reformer. So what he's been doing with other Christian churches is trying to heal past wounds and work together toward a shared view of their history.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Christian, Religious, War

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Age, Splits, Spirituality

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• Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to a right relationship with God through the life, death, and resurrection of his beloved Son. This is the Good News, the gospel of Grace

  Brennan Manning

  Son, Grace, Merit

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.16, Multnomah

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• When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Hope, Humble

  "The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D".

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