Spiritual Reformation Quotes

Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

There is talk of an universall Toleration, I would talke as loud as I could against it … Toleration of all hellish Errors, or how they shall make an universall Reformation, but by making Christ's Academy the Devil's University

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.

The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most like God. And it may well be true, for the soul at its highest is formed like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. For this reason the angel was sent to the soul, so that the soul might be re-formed by it, to be the divine idea by which it was first conceived.

If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving.