41 Quotes by John Knox

Ye [Anabaptists] be proud contemners of the free grace of God offered to man in Christ Jesus. For with the Pelagians and Papists ye are become teachers of free will, and defenders of your own righteousness

But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.

Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am compelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinate rebels.

Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.

As the world is weary of me so am I of it.