Reformation Quotes

“The principal point of the whole controversy between us and the papists is this, that they contend that Scripture is not the only rule of faith.”

“I have no intention of making a martyr of Luther.”

“You are now going to burn a goose, but in a century you will have a swan which you can neither roast nor boil.”

“By this translation, the greatest jewel of this realm is now brought to light.”

“I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that drives the plough to know more of the Scripture than you do.”

“In a word, I have based my faith on the gospel of Christ and not on the creeds of men.”

“The Reformation of the sixteenth century is, next to the introduction of Christianity, the greatest event in history.”

“Does England hold the sense and worship of God shut up in them, Blind in her own light, buried in her own filth?”