Reformation Quotes - Page 10

• Luther and the Reformation were of fundamental importance to Denmark. We Danes are still Lutherans today. We spoke about him a lot in school, and we feel very close to him.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  School, Fundamentals, Today

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God's words without doing them.

  J. C. Ryle

  Talking, Practice, Hearing

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.384, Letcetera Publishing

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• What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern age, a Muslim Reformation to combat not only the jihadist ideologues but also the dusty, stifling seminaries of the traditionalists, throwing open the windows to let in much-needed fresh air.... It is high time, for starters, that Muslims were able to study the revelation of their religion as an event inside history, not supernaturally above it.... Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  Salman Rushdie

  Sibling, Moving, Air

  "Everybody needs to get thicker skins" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2008.

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• Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Storm, Friendly, Violent

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• It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Firsts, Care, Reformers

  Edward Gibbon (1860). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.351

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• The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society of owners: a Proprietarial Society. It was one in which there remained strong bonds between one class and another, and in which there was a hierarchy of superior and inferior, but not, in the main, a distinction between a restricted body of possessors and a main body of destitute at the mercy of the possessors, such as our society has become.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Strong, Class

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.84, TAN Books

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• Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things improved since. The blood-soaked history of persecution, torture, murder, and destruction perpetrated in the name of religion is difficult to grasp, let alohne summarize, from the slaughter of Christians to the Crusades to the Inquisitiion to the Reformation to the European witchcraze to colonialization to today's bitter coflict in the Middle East.

  Elaine Pagels

  Christian, Blood, Names

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• No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

  John Flavel

  Prayer, Self, Soul

  John Flavel (1875). “The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)”, p.341

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• Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Restoration, Might, Revolution

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Becoming, Mercy, Submission

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• God is calling forth a generation that is passionate for His presence. A generation that knows who they are and Whose they are. He is calling forth sons and daughters who don't find their identity in revival but in Christ. For the Great Commission must flow out of the Great Commandment. Our destinies must flow out of our identities as beloved children of God who know their worth, value and honor before the Father...we have nothing to prove and nothing to lose...It is the time for change. IT is time for revival and reformation in this generation.

  Jaeson Ma

  Daughter, Children, Father

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• It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

  Ken Ham

  Church, Authority, Genesis

  Ken Ham, Britt Beemer (2009). “Already Gone: Why Your Kids Will Quit Church and What You Can Do to Stop It”, p.141, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

  George Orwell

  Equality, Reform, Literature

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• 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

  Feel Better, Evil, Shadow

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• We will have health care reform in America.

  Dick Durbin

  America, Reform, Care

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• The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the overwhelming consensus of theologians up through the Reformation held to this view. I myself would adopt it in a heartbeat except that nature seems to present such strong evidence against it.

  William A. Dembski

  Strong, Views, Order

  William A. Dembski (2009). “The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World”, p.55, B&H Publishing Group

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• Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

  John Ruskin

  Education, School, Diversity

  Unto This Last Essay 2 (1862)

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• Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination

  Mother Jones

  Journey, Destination, Final Destination

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• To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

  George Santayana

  Mean, Successful, Two Sides

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Goal, Reform, Cost

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• Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Atheism, Reform

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1182, Library of Alexandria

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• 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, Way, Dangerous

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

  John Ensign

  Doctors, Issues, Reform

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• Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Priorities, Reform, Administration

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• And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white photographs), with a compressed summation that precludes any possible continuation. And so it is a leave-taking from thoughts and feelings of my own on a very basic level. Not that this is a deliberate act, of course; it is a quasi-automatic sequence of disintegration and reformation which I can perceive, as always, only in retrospect.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Strong, Black And White

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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