All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask. Yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.

Martin Luther, German Reformer

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Samuel Rutherford

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Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation. Hence, they do not conceive of him in the character in which he is manifested, but imagine him to be whatever their own rashness has devised. This abyss standing open, they cannot move one footstep without rushing headlong to destruction. With such an idea of God, nothing which they may attempt to offer in the way of worship or obedience can have any value in his sight, because it is not him they worship, but, instead of him, the dream and figment of their own heart.

John Calvin

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All that is between God and man in the scripture is for man's necessity, and not for any need that God hath thereof. And other spiritual profit can none have by that faith in the sacrament, than to be taught thereby to believe in Christ our Savior, and to do good to his neighbor.

William Tyndale, refrormer

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For he calleth himself a Saviour, which appertaineth to Christ only. What is a Saviour, but he that saveth? And thou sayest, I save myself; which is as much to say as, I am Christ, for Christ is only the Saviour of the world.

Patrick Hamilton, Scottish Reformer

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A man with God is always in the majority.

John Knox

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We ought never to regard unity so much that we would or should forsake God's word for her sake.

Hugh Latimer, English reformer

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Surely no godly soul can doubt for a moment that it is through God’s mercy alone and for the sake of Christ’s merit alone that we are justified, pronounced righteous before God, and not because of anything in us at all, however many works of holiness, however genuine our fruits of the Spirit.

Martin Bucer

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For God's sake, do not put yourself at odds with the Word of God. For truly it will persist as surely as the Rhine follows its course. One can perhaps dam it up for awhile, but it is impossible to stop it.

Ulrich Zwingli

Such is the true faith, that the Scripture doth so much commend, the which when it seeth and considereth what God hath done for us, is also moved through continual assistance of the Spirit of God, to serve and please him, to keep his favor, to fear his displeasure, to continue his obedient children, showing thankfulness again by observing or keeping his commandments, and that freely, for true love chiefly, and not for dread of punishment, or love of temporal reward, considering how clearly, without deservings we have received his mercy and pardon freely.

Therefore, wherever the doctrine of the apostles and the legitimate use of the sacraments and of prayers are, there the true church certainly is.

Francis Turretin, Swiss reformer

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The Bible is for the government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

John Wycliffe, Morningstar of the reformation

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...it would be better to have no laws at all, than, under the cloak of law, to tolerate unrestrained and even honourable robbery.

George Buchanan, Scottish reformer

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I consider that no polity from the beginning of the world has been more wisely and perfectly constructed than the polity of the Jews.  We err, I believe, whenever in similar circumstances we depart from it.

Johannes Althusius, 17th century Dutch reformer, jurist

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Christ, whom I said was quickened by the Spirit, having gone, not by a change of place, but by a certain special manifestation of his presence, by revelation and operation, as God is often said to come in Scripture, not literally but figuratively and metaphorically; not in the body, which he had not yet assumed, but by that very Spirit or divine power by which he rose again and was quickened, and inspired (by which the prophets spoke, 1 Pet. 1:11) preached to those spirits, which are now in the prison of hell, where they suffer the punishment of their rebellion to his preaching in the time of Noah.

Theodore Beza, Swiss reformer

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