Reformation Quotes

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

We're in a reformation period with our nuclear program. Potentially, nuclear power is a very valuable power source. - Carl Walz

We want to bridge the cross-cultural gap between our people and countries. We want to bring people together and dispel the myths about each country. There are lots of misconceptions. They are begging for reformation of their laws. They want real law and order. - Victoria Khan

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. - Thomas Carlyle

This is an amazing place, historically... It's sort of the seat of reformation, at least in Britain, and it's the great seat of learning since 1412. It's very unique, this place. And the golfers who play professional golf never know. - Peter Thomson

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

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church. - John Nelson Darby

The English (I cannot speak of the Scots) are moralistic, and have made moralizing their discipline since the reformation. They like to be told what to think, and their literary heroes are moralists. - Howard Barker

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Desirous to avoid the pains of Hell, You will repent and join the Church, Parnell? How needless! --Nick will keep you off the coals And add you to the woes of other souls. --Jomater Abemy. - Ambrose Bierce

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. - Henry Ward Beecher