How good we are as preachers depends – not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily – on how good we are as men.
JOHN KNOXIn youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.
More John Knox Quotes
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A man with God is always in the majority.
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Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.
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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.
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Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.
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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.
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Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.
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As the world is weary of me so am I of it.
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I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
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When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.
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Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.
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The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.
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One man with God is always a majority.
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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.
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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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The Monstrous Regiment of Women.
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