John Knox on image
John Knox27 quotes“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.”
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Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.
John KnoxJohn Knox Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.
John KnoxJohn Knox Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.
John KnoxJohn Knox When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.
John KnoxJohn Knox You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
John KnoxJohn Knox 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.
John KnoxJohn Knox Lord, give me Scotland or I die!
John KnoxJohn Knox I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.
John KnoxJohn Knox O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.
John KnoxJohn Knox Ye 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.
John KnoxJohn Knox Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and torture.
John KnoxJohn Knox No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
John KnoxJohn Knox 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.
John KnoxJohn Knox 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.
John KnoxJohn Knox 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.
John KnoxJohn Knox I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.
John KnoxJohn Knox
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing.
Al StewartAl Stewart How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.
Al GoldsteinAl Goldstein Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.
Aidan QuinnAidan Quinn We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.
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