Top 100 Reformed Quotes
#1. Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
Voltaire
#2. She was shining a light on us, she was coming into being, endlessly being formed and reformed as the muscles in her face worked at smiling and speaking, as the electronic dots swarmed.
Don DeLillo
#3. Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
Billy Sunday
#4. Indeed, cousine, I should rather you were a sincere Satanist than a pretend one; for the former recognizes God's majesty, and may be reformed, while the latter is an atheist, and doomed to the Lake of Fire.
Neal Stephenson
#5. Sometimes things have to be broken and reformed to become truly beautiful.
Kristen Reed
#6. People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.
Patti Smith
#7. Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
Thomas Carlyle
#8. Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.
Hosea Ballou
#9. A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.
Vivian Vande Velde
#10. Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.
Paul Weller
#11. Where evangelical spiritualities tend to move from the individual to the family to the church, Reformed piety moves in the other direction: from the public means of grace to the family to the individual.
Michael S. Horton
#12. Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness.
Joseph C. Morecraft III
#13. The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.
Neil Kinnock
#14. It's not about terror or anything else, it's about politics, and so it becomes more about politics than it does about faith. Orthodox rabbis - that is about faith. There's not a single Orthodox rabbi on this list. This is all Reformed rabbis that were - that made this list.
Glenn Beck
#15. You're a con artist. A liar. A thief. An unredeemable soul. You can't be reformed. You can't be saved. You'll die trying to make the world pay for what it did to you. And you'll die alone.
Karina Halle
#16. A magnificent achievement that witnesses powerfully to the rich development, harmony, and piety of the Reformed faith.
Joel Beeke
#17. Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.
Evan Bayh
#18. The beginning of questioning well is to seek to question well, which may mean laying down our questions and allowing them to be reshaped and reformed by the answers given us by God.
G.K. Chesterton
#19. They say a reformed roue makes the best husband, but, Oh! Didn't they tell you? Monsters can't be reformed ...
John Geddes
#20. Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
R.C. Sproul
#21. I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
Woodrow Wilson
#22. Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.
Robert Higgs
#23. Effective tax credits are used to create jobs and grow our economy. But tax credits that aren't delivering for Missourians must be retooled and reformed.
Jay Nixon
#24. Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.
Kevin McCarthy
#25. Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
Ken Robinson
#26. I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.
Deborah Sampson
#27. I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.
Will Rogers
#28. Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#29. I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.
John Thune
#30. The evangelism of Billy Graham is revered, so that if one dares to call the message of Graham the doctrine of Pelagius out of hell, as the Canons of Dordt do indeed call it, he is likely to be stoned as a blasphemer in the streets of Reformed Jerusalem. (3rd edn, p. 63)
David J. Engelsma
#31. Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.
Elisabeth Charlotte D'Orleans
#32. When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
John Milton
#33. No plasticity exists in the Quran. This book is believed by Muslims to be the verbatim words of God. How can you change the word of God? Other religions are living. They are changing and evolving. Islam is fossilized. It allows no change. It can't be reformed.
Ali Sina
#34. The ills attributed to an anthropomorphic abstraction called "society" may be laid more realistically at the door of Everyman. Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower into civic virtue, inner reforms leading to outer ones. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#35. My parents are definitely reformed hippies.
Alison Brie
#36. I own I never really warmed
To the reformer or reformed.
And yet conversion has its place
Not halfway down the scale of grace.
Robert Frost
#37. The reformed addict who feels the craving almost believes in it, then merely smiles ...
William T. Vollmann
#38. Reformed, Poetic Ministry for an Opium Addict
Anonymous
#39. In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. Don't tell me that you have a Reformed Church in the tradition of Calvin until you have the preaching of the Word every day of the week, devote Wednesday's to prayer and have the church gather together for prayer.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#41. Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.
William Hazlitt
#42. He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.
Thomas Adams
#43. No the cat we had to leave. It was not Protestant. But the dog, seeing no future for the Reformed Religion in France, was happy enough to go.
Judith Merkle Riley
#44. Punishment and judgment don't create a reformed heart; they create - at best - a heart full of fear, and - at worst - a heart full of rebellion.
Tullian Tchividjian
#45. What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#46. All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.
Francis Lambert
#47. She was a tall, seedy, sad-eyed blonde who had once been a policewoman and had lost her job when she married a cheap little check bouncer named Johnny Horne, to reform him. She hadn't reformed him, but she was waiting for him to come out so she could try again.
Raymond Chandler
#48. I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.
George Sanders
#49. Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of polite duty. The company will be pleased with you if you do, and most probably will not be reformed by you if you do not.
Lord Chesterfield
#50. A country can be reformed only through a spiritual restoration
Sunday Adelaja
#51. The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements
Tony Blair
#52. Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
Don Marquis
#53. We were all changing. We didn't have to be changed, to be re-educated, to be reformed. Thad been done, already.
Mbella Sonne Dipoko
#54. there is nothing so bad as a reformed anything, be it gambler, drunkard, or lecher. They are aye harder on folks wi' their vices than someone without them would be." Sir
Marion Chesney
#55. Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.
David Mixner
#56. Can I say I'm a reformed bad boy without sounding like a tool?
R.S. Grey
#57. Reformed rabbis are generally political in nature. It's almost like Islam, radicalized Islam in a way, to where it is just radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics. When you look at the Reform Judaism, it is more about politics.
Glenn Beck
#58. Wherever Reformed convictions gained a foothold, there was a revival of classical learning and interest in the arts and sciences - not only among the highly educated, but even among the daily laborer, who also had more access to basic education.
Michael S. Horton
#59. Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.
Kate Millett
#61. Reformed theology isn't a sledgehammer with which to hit people, it's a pillow on which they can lay their weary heads.
Burk Parsons
#62. It causes the world great indignation that the question of God and his revelation could be taken so seriously, as seriously as it was taken by the teachers and synods of the ancient church, and by Lutherans, Reformed, and Catholics in the century of the Reformation.
Hermann Sasse
#63. Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying speed to a far corner of the night. In the dark hours before sunrise, constellations came apart and reformed and fell in burning streaks.
Joe Hill
#64. None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.
Matthew Henry
#65. Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said.
"Rubbish and you know it."
-Anthony to Violet
Julia Quinn
#66. Reformed theology is ALWAYS being reformed in each new generation. And reformed theology as it is usually reported today is NOT the whole story.
Oliver D. Crisp
#67. The thing about alcohol, though non-drinkers, non-alcoholics and reformed alcoholics may falsely dispute this, is that each day, or night on booze, is a different journey, the destination being a mystery, but quite possibly the final one.
Robert Black
#68. I've reformed. The kissing is sort of a holdover."
"Don't reform. I like you bad.
Ruthie Knox
#69. Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated.
Olof Palme
#70. Gout, I understand, has reformed a great many rogues.
Loretta Chase
#71. The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. Russia was allowed to inherit the Soviet Union's seat on the UN Security Council when that organization, which had been designed to preserve the Cold War status quo, should instead have been reformed to reflect the new primacy of the free world.
Garry Kasparov
#73. In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens.
Ronald Kessler
#74. If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving.
Martin Luther
#75. As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.
Stewart Lee Beck
#76. He knows that kind of love. It is what he feels for Gallicina. It is the world reformed, made new, each time the lover sees the beloved's face. It is the miracle which makes the cosmos dance, which keeps the planets in their courses, which fuels the fire of the stars. It is salvation.
Susan Palwick
#77. I?m not even sure I?d go into a reformed House of Lords. But let?s put it like this, the decision would have been easier had there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride.
Neil Kinnock
#78. Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields ...
James Elkins
#79. When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.
Tullian Tchividjian
#80. In the Reformed tradition, a good deal of our stoicism and apathy rides like a parasite on the back of the doctrine of God's sovereignty and providence.
Toby J. Sumpter
#81. In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.
R.C. Sproul
#82. People who have been in and around government and politics their entire lives may not be able to see the truth. Our government must be fundamentally reformed. The system has to be changed. Our politics can no longer tinker on the edges.
Carly Fiorina
#83. Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.
Edward Snowden
#84. Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.
Thomas Szasz
#85. I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national security programs, by increasing transparency, strengthening oversight, and safeguarding civil liberties.
Dutch Ruppersberger
#86. We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown.
David Cameron
#87. Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#88. Uh, hello? I prefer recently reformed promiscuous reprobate. I'm just sayin', if we're gonna name call, let's just make sure we get 'em straight
Jenn Cooksey
#89. We cannot afford to be discouraged from challenging the corporate control of our food system, our genetic commons, our shared resources, or our democracy. The history of social change in our nation shows that the political system can be reformed, even if the road is long and zigzag.
Wenonah Hauter
#90. The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.
James Crumley
#91. I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.
George Carey
#92. In my dream, all of the collapsed ceilings reformed above us. The fire went back into the bombs, which rose up and into the bellies of planes whose propellers turned backward, like the second hands of the clocks across Dresden, only faster.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#93. I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.
Steven Van Zandt
#94. But there's one thing that I understand, and it is that when all those emotional vertebrae broke and reformed they had a different quality. They began to have a word-making, listen-to-me quality. They began to know they were worth more.
Cara Ellison
#95. I'm definitely not some kind of reformed badass created by my extraordinary experiences, either. Just ask the spider that crawled on me the other night while I was reading a book in bed. Mrs. Gregory about had a heart attack I screamed so loud.
J.A. Redmerski
#96. Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.
Bryant McGill
#97. To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
Samuel Richardson
#98. But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them.
Frank Carlucci
#99. I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character.
Edward J. Flanagan
#100. It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care for people and singular in his devotion to God.
William Edgar
