Reformation Quotes - Page 3

• Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

  Marty Meehan

  Real, Writing, Law

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• Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Names, Long, Shining

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

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Thinking, Way, Morality

  "Busted: Timothy Radcliffe, OP". Interview with Bill McGarvey, bustedhalo.com. April 04, 2008.

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

  Jane Haddam

  Writing

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• The people of North America, at this time, expect a revisal and reformation of the American Governments, and are better disposed to submit to it than ever they were, or perhaps ever will be again.97. This is therefore the proper and critical time to reform the American governments upon a general, constitutional, firm, and durable plan; and if it is not done now, it will probably every day grow more difficult, till at last it becomes impracticable.

  Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet

  Government, America, People

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

  John Nelson Darby

  Character, Church, True Character

  John Nelson Darby (2015). “Collected Writings by John Nelson Darby Volume Fourteen: Ecclesiastical”, p.106, Irving Risch

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

  Julius Wellhausen

  Historical, Results

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.

  James T. Walsh

  New York, Party, People

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• You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

  Steve Israel

  Impact, People, Reform

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• Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

  Michael McCaul

  Country, Real, Rights

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• In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

  Hu Shih

  Years, Chinese, Students

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• As far as I'm concerned, the reformation of marijuana laws is something that I take seriously. I think it's something that can stimulate the economy.

  Asher Roth

  Marijuana, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.complex.com

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• They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Life, Effort, Waste

  Charles Robert Maturin (1819). “Sermons”, p.262

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• I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

  Lionel Blue

  Grateful, Reform, Christianity

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• I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

  John Bright

  Party, Years, Reform

  Speech on April 28, 1859. The Times, p. 6, April 29, 1859.

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• There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

  Harri Holkeri

  Eye, Issues, President

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• Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

  Kenzo Tange

  Design, Today, Ordinary

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• With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

  John Bright

  Reform, Favour, Worthy

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

  John Burns

  Past, Light, Reform

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• I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

  Ben Nelson

  Challenges, Wish, Reform

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• I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Mohammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father Ali Ibn Abi-Talib.

  Husayn ibn Ali

  Father, Tyrants, Evil

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• I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or rebirth is a nauseating idea. It's one of the reasons I left Christianity. I simply could not accept that version of God.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Believe, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

  Ameen Rihani

  Government, Soul, Mind

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• Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

  George Gillespie

  Action, Contemplation, Ends

  George Gillespie (1846). “The Presbyterian's Armoury: and II. The works of Mr. George Gillespie, with memoir of his life and writings”

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• If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we who are christian are heirs to a body-despising, woman-fearing, sexually repressive religious tradition. If we are to continue as members of the church, we must challenge and transform it at the root. What is required is more than simply a "reformation." I am speaking of revolutionary transformation. Nothing less will do.

  Carter Heyward

  Christian, Religious, Reality

  Carter Heyward (1989). “Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God”, Harper San Francisco

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