Religious Reform

Famous quotes containing the words religious and/or reform:

    “It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down.... Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)