How good we are as preachers depends – not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily – on how good we are as men.
JOHN KNOXHere lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.
More John Knox Quotes
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Lord, give me Scotland or I die!
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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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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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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.
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Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.
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A man with God is always in the majority.
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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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The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.
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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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I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.
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The Monstrous Regiment of Women.
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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.
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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.
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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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One man with God is always a majority.
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