REFORMATION

Related Subjects: Calvinism, Improvement, Protestantism, Reform

1. But 'tis the talent of our English nation,
   Still to be plotting some new reformation.—DRYDEN, Sophonisba
   

2. When doctrines meet with general approbation,
   It is not heresy, but reformation.—DAVID GARRICK, Epigram
   

3. He bought a Bible of the new translation,
   And in his life he show'd great reformation;
   He walked mannerly and talked meekly;
   He heard three lectures and two sermons weekly.—SIR JOHN HARRINGTON, Of a Precise Tailor
   

4. A true reformation must begin at the upper end.—Proverb
   

5. My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
   Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes,
   Than that which hath no foil to set it off.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

6. Never came reformation in a flood.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
   

7. Every generation needs regeneration.—C. H. SPURGEON, Salt-Cellars
   

8. And ah for a man to arise in me,
   That the man I am may cease to be!—TENNYSON, Maud