#reformation

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

— John Nelson Darby

#church #did #directly #god #question

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

— Jane Haddam

#i #like #maybe #reformation #write

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#education #journey #like #reformation

The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction. ↗

— Patrick Hamilton

#inspirational-religious #reformation #inspirational

Jan van Leyden announced that a new world order [anabaptism] had been revealed to him and promptly began to implement it. Money was abolished; polygamy was legalized; marriage was made compulsory for women. Those who dissented faced execution. ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#christianity #reformation #marriage

Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#destiny #happiness #humanism #inspirational #karma

Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat. ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#religion #religion

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

#extremely #how #islam #keep #liberals

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

#assign #brought #facts #historical #issue

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action. ↗

— George Gillespie

#contemplation #ends #reformation