Quotes about Reform

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

Injury is done to the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or larger amount of time is devoted to indulgences than to the Word.

fanatics. Every teacher of work-righteousness is a trouble-maker.

It did not please me, either, that the Christians and the princes were driven, urged, and irritated into attacking the Turk and making war on him, before they amended their own ways and lived like true Christians.

It never does any good when one knave punishes another without first becoming good himself.

Give to it the place in our institutions of learning now occupied by scholastic theology and physiology, and it will 142 eradicate sickness and sin in less time than the old systems, devised for subduing them, have required for self-establishment and propagation.

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

Third, when God is king, the result is proper justice, real equity, the removal of all corruption and oppression.

Far too much traditional church has consisted of too much tradition and not enough church.

More satisfactory by far, at the level of history, is to say with Gerhard Lohfink that Jesus did not intend to found a church because there already was one, namely the people of Israel itself. Jesus' intention was therefore to reform Israel, not to found a different community altogether.