Quotes about Reform

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

And as for the Pope, I refuse him as Christ's enemy, and antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

You go against rottenness, and there is nothing more thoroughly rotten than making people believe that society can be cured by a political hocus-pocus.

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.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.

Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform than any others ever attempted. They teach that Christ's kingdom is not of this world; that the church is not a national, political, or provincial establishment; but a congregation of holy men, separated from the world by the receiving of the Holy Spirit.

All these years later, the way many of us are doing church is broken and we know it, even if we do not know what to do about it.