Religious Reformer

Famous quotes containing the words religious and/or reformer:

    If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.
    David Hume (1711–1776)

    It may be worth the while to state that he is not a Reformer in our sense of the term.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)