84 Quotes About Reformation

It is the human race, not the world, that desperately needs to be changed.

You've got to be good before you can do good - or at any rate do good without doing harm at the same time. Helping with one hand and hurting with the other - that's what the ordinary reformer does.

Reformation begins with repentance.

Zeal, if it be well ordered, is most beautiful in a Christian; but if not, it is a thing of exceeding great danger: as fire in moderation is most comfortable, but in extremity most fearful.

We are the sickness, we are the cure.

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.

It is an irony still to be appreciated by many scholars that by so maximizing sinfulness (before God every man is guilty of every conceivable sin) Protestants tried to minimize its psychological burden (no man is required to ponder and recite his every actual sin)

Revolutions arise from obstinacy. People are dissatisfied with what they are told and they develop new ideas.

Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.