How good we are as preachers depends – not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily – on how good we are as men.
JOHN KNOXHow good we are as preachers depends – not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily – on how good we are as men.
More John Knox Quotes
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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
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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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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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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.
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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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Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.
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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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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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Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.
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One man with God is always a majority.
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I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
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Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.
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I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.
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Lord, give me Scotland or I die!
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