Quotes on Reformation

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.