Lutheran Reformation Quotes

#1. Lutheran Reformation, from its inception in 1517 down to the Peasants' War of 1525, at once absorbed, and was absorbed by, all the revolutionary elements of the time.

Ernest Belfort Bax

#2. Great music is great music, period.

Ricky Skaggs

#3. You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.

Fay Weldon

#4. It is important to demonstrate to the unfree world that one of the privileges of democracies is to enjoy freedom of travel and intercourse and the exchange of knowledge and ideas. [Gerald Barry, from article in English Speaking World, 1950.]

Harriet Atkinson

#5. The true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

Thomas Paine

#6. There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion and the ruler of the province or the region was Lutheran, to stay a Catholic, you either had to be a dissenter or you had to leave.

Susan Jacoby