Zwingli Quotes

#1. Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.

Alister E. McGrath

#2. Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.

Huldrych Zwingli

#3. The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.

Francis Parkman

#4. Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power,
has that ability to comfort.

Norman Kolpas

#5. A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Thomas Beecham

#6. If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.

Huldrych Zwingli

#7. When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.

Claire Bloom

#8. One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become "ripe" through the political struggle itself.

Slavoj Zizek

#9. Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves.

Huldrych Zwingli

#10. The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss ...

Huldrych Zwingli

#11. It is the very design of life to support life.

Robert Fanney

#12. I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter's vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.

Huldrych Zwingli

#13. Everything that is true is God's word, whoever may have said it.

Huldrych Zwingli

#14. I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

Zach Galifianakis

#15. I went into a shop and I said, "Can someone sell me a kettle." The bloke said "Kenwood" I said, "Where is he?"

Tim Vine

#16. Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful.

Huldrych Zwingli

#17. In this matter of baptism - if I may be pardoned for saying it - I can only conclude that all the doctors have been in error from the time of the apostles ... All the doctors have ascribed to the water a power which it does not have and the holy apostles did not teach.

Huldrych Zwingli