46 Quotes by John Wycliffe

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words

I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.

I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.

Ability is that sufficiency which cometh from God.

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.