Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarolawas an Italian Dominican friar and preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He was known for his prophecies of civic glory, the destruction of secular art and culture, and his calls for Christian renewal. He denounced clerical corruption, despotic rule and the exploitation of the poor. He prophesied the coming of a biblical flood and a new Cyrus from the north who would reform the Church. In September 1494, when Charles VIII of France invaded Italy and threatened Florence, such...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth21 September 1452
CountryItaly
Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!
Lord! teach me the way my soul should walk.
Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.
If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.
It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.
Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God.
I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.
God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.
Don't be ashamed to learn from others.
The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.
It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.
The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy.
The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell.
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.