41 Quotes by John Knox

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman...For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain reprobation, but that every man may elect or reprobate himself by his own free will, which he has (say they) to do good or evil ... [All these things are] forged by their own brains, and polished by the finest of their wits, when yet in very deed they are but the rotten heresies of ... Pelagius, long ago confuted by Augustine ...

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.