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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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• Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they Mongol Asians with the European veneer. And they've gone back and forth.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Enlightenment, Gone, Share

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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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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• Protestantism, of course, is much more explicitly divided into different traditions - the Pentecostals, the Anglicans. But there is the main tradition of Protestantism that comes out of the Reformation and that produced people like Kant and Hegel and so on, who are not normally thought of as being people writing in a theological tradition, although Hegel, of course, wrote theology his whole life.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Writing, People, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there was a hierarchy of being. If you look at Thomas Aquinas, for example, you have hierarchies of angels and all the rest of it, and hierarchies even of saints and then subsaints - people who aren't quite there, that sort of thing. The Reformation rejected all of that and created a new metaphysics, in effect, that is not hierarchical.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Angel, People, Example

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that was made by people like Thomas Aquinas, that was assumed doctrinally in that tradition. The Reformation rejected that model of reality and created a highly individualistic metaphysics in the sense that it located everything normative that can be said about reality in human perception, there being, of course, no other avenue of knowing. There is Scripture, there is conscience, there is perception itself.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reality, Knowing, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It seems to me that since the Middle Ages (it's not a Reformation thing), all that stuff about Jews and Gentiles coming together in Christ was just screened out.

  N. T. Wright

  Age, Together, Stuff

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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

  Valerie Jarrett

  Goal, Reform, Cost

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We will have health care reform in America.

  Dick Durbin

  America, Reform, Care

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

  Mother Jones

  Journey, Destination, Final Destination

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• It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

  Reza Aslan

  Islamic, Years, Idols

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