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Reformed rakes often make the best husbands -- Judith McNaught
Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet -- Julia Quinn
A magnificent achievement that witnesses powerfully to the rich development, harmony, and piety of the Reformed faith. -- Joel Beeke
One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology! -- Oliver D. Crisp
That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived. -- Oliver D. Crisp
Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview. -- R. C. Sproul
Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today. -- Oliver D. Crisp
I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes. -- Oliver D. Crisp
The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life. -- Oliver D. Crisp
Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past. -- Oliver D. Crisp
The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about. -- Oliver D. Crisp
We are still living with the consequences of that today in popular Reformed thinking from the likes of John Piper, R. C. Sproul, and Tim Keller. -- Oliver D. Crisp
No confession is inerrant; Reformed Christians are supposed to be those who seek to be constantly reformed according to the Word of God - and that includes our confessions as well. -- Oliver D. Crisp
It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care for people and singular in his devotion to God. -- William Edgar
The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought. -- Oliver D. Crisp
To my mind [ Jonathan Edwards] is an interesting figure because he is both a canonical Reformed thinker, and yet also someone that pushed the envelope in a number of key areas of theology. -- Oliver D. Crisp
When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. -- Tullian Tchividjian
[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous. -- Oliver D. Crisp
In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God. -- R. C. Sproul
Don't tell me that you have a Reformed Church in the tradition of Calvin until you have the preaching of the Word every day of the week, devote Wednesday's to prayer and have the church gather together for prayer. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Reformed rabbis are generally political in nature. It's almost like Islam, radicalized Islam in a way, to where it is just radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics. When you look at the Reform Judaism, it is more about politics. -- Glenn Beck
A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confession, a catechism uses questions and answers. Many Protestant confessional traditions, like Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Reformed, have used catechisms for centuries. Initially, most catechisms were intended for children. -- Kevin DeYoung
For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for the Five Points of Calvinism). These are not thinkers on the margins or troublemakers. They are leaders at the center of Reformed thinking like Bishop John Davenant. -- Oliver D. Crisp
These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though in some respects they may represent views that are not as popular now as they once were, or that may represent a minority report in the tradition. -- Oliver D. Crisp
Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed. -- Kent Conrad
In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens. -- Ronald Kessler
Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald. -- Paul Weller
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. -- Susan Sontag
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. -- Jeannette Rankin
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. -- John Milton
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband! -- Samuel Richardson
I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part. -- George Carey
Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose. -- John Ashcroft
It is in my heart that I believe most strongly that our future is within a reformed E.U. - not least because we now live in a global marketplace. -- Andrew Lansley
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. -- Billy Sunday
When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted. -- Michael Gove
Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed. -- Evan Bayh
Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous. -- Max Heindel
Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget. -- Kevin McCarthy
I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national security programs, by increasing transparency, strengthening oversight, and safeguarding civil liberties. -- Dutch Ruppersberger
I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership. -- John Thune
Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker. -- David Mixner
Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children. -- Chris Christie
But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them. -- Frank Carlucci
People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands. -- Patti Smith
Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange. -- Robert Higgs
The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent? -- Richard LaGravenese
My parents are definitely reformed hippies. -- Alison Brie
I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed -- Ben Elton
Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated. -- Olof Palme
I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves. -- Laozi
Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed. -- Ken Robinson
I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words. -- George Sanders
Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished. -- Thomas Szasz
The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk. -- James Crumley
The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner. -- Elsa Maxwell
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character. -- Woodrow Wilson
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband. -- Samuel Richardson
Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive. -- Don Marquis
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. -- Norman Douglas
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. -- Voltaire
Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow. -- Vladimir Putin
It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church. -- Robert Godfrey
...they say a reformed roue makes the best husband, but, Oh! Didn't they tell you? Monsters can't be reformed... -- John Geddes
None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God. -- Matthew Henry
Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed. -- Bryant McGill
My state, Scott Walker, our governors, reformed Medicaid so it actually works, so that the doctors will take the program. -- Paul Ryan
Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before. -- Kate Millett
I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace. -- Robert Frost
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters -- Alfred Russel Wallace
A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business. -- Vivian Vande Velde
I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character. -- Edward J. Flanagan
In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison. -- Preston Sturges
In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished. -- Neil Kinnock
All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain. -- Francis Lambert
I think Donald Trump needs to set a direction that allows people who are deeply opposed to Obamacare to realize it's gradually going to be reformed and rethought. -- Newt Gingrich
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Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged. -- Hosea Ballou
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. -- Martin Luther
Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain. -- Edward Snowden
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions. -- Deborah Sampson
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation. -- Thomas Carlyle
He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it. -- Thomas Adams

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