{"quotes":[{"text":"The reformation of society and restoration of spirituality should be our goal as Christians.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["christians","goal","reformation","restoration","society","spirituality"],"id":19869,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife.","author":"Germaine Greer","tags":["marriage","martin-luther","reformation"],"id":21592,"author_id":"Germaine+Greer"},{"text":"The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["community-development","reformation","transformation"],"id":26434,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen.', April 18, 1521).","author":"Martin Luther","tags":["belief","christian","conscience","freedom-of-religion","freedom-of-thought","organized-religion","reformation","religion","steadfastness","truth"],"id":29134,"author_id":"Martin+Luther"},{"text":"Evangelical Christians need to notice..., that the Reformation said 'Scripture Alone' and not 'the Revelation of God in Christ Alone'. If you do not have the view of the Scriptures that the Reformers had, you really have no content in the word 'Christ' - and this is the modern drift in theology. Modern theology uses the word without content because 'Christ' is cut away from the Scriptures. The Reformation followed the teaching of Christ Himself in linking the revelation Christ gave of God to the revelation of the written Scriptures.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["bible","christ","christians","evangelical","modern","reformation","scripture","theology"],"id":36066,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"},{"text":"Though the Reformation originated with the Lord's fresh move through various reformers, in a rather short time the resulting churches became institutionalized with a mixture of politics, human organization, and hierarchy.","author":"Henry Hon","tags":["church-history","history","politics","protestant-reformation","reformation","reformers","religion"],"id":36127,"author_id":"Henry+Hon"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nehemiah Rogers","tags":["christianity","church","fellowship","moderation","reformation","religion","renaissance","wisdom"],"id":40535,"author_id":"Nehemiah+Rogers"},{"text":"Here I stand, so help me God, I can do no other. With the greater consciousness of the issues involved comes a lesser assurance that an alternative is possible.","author":"Gordon H. Clark","tags":["christianity","free-will","reformation","theology"],"id":58706,"author_id":"Gordon+H.+Clark"},{"text":"Truly, these times of ignorance God overlook, but now he commanded all men everywhere to repent.' Acts 17: 30.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christain","god","humanity","ignorance","reformation","repentance","sin"],"id":64817,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the clergy. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes.].","author":"John Adams","tags":["celts","chaldeans","clergy","greeks","hindu","hinduism","islam","knowledge","monopoly","muslim","persians","priesthood","priests","protestant","reformation","romans","science-vs-religion","sect","teutons"],"id":86477,"author_id":"John+Adams"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}