Quotes About Reformation

I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

True revolutions ... restore more than they destroy.

Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit.

A caricature of this result," Butterfield adds, "is to be seen in a popular view that is still not quite eradicated: the view that the Middle Ages represented a period of darkness when man was kept tongue-tied by authority—a period against which the Renaissance was the reaction and the Reformation the great rebellion."14

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

My conscience is captive to the Word of God

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.

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.

Only a true faith that applies God's Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.

If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving.

Without having any relationship with God, we will not change anything in our world

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

Evangelicals have to face it (like Roman Catholics of 16th century had to): Increasingly, our version of Good News is neither news nor good.

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

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

If the Protestant Reformation sought to remove the Catholic Church as an mediator between the individual and God, Hermetic magic sought to go one further, and provide techniques to directly plug an individual into the mind of God itself, not just handing over the right of individual interpretation of scripture but a direct connection to the source of scripture.

But they had imbibed, in the first fervor of the reformation, the spirit, as well as the principles of Luther.

Protestants are Christians whose religion derives ultimately from Martin Luther's rebellion against the Catholic Church. They are a tree with many tangled branches but a single trunk.