Quotes from John 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.

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.

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.

I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

A man with God is always in the majority.

When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.

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.

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment [Regimen] of Women.

Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

A man with God is always in the majority.

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

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.

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

The man who stands with God is always in the majority.

All that the Lord thy God commands thee to do, that do thou to the Lord thy God: add nothing to it, diminish nothing from it.' By this rule, think I, the Kirk of Christ will measure God's religion, and not by that which seems good in their own eyes.

Considering myself called of my God to instruct the ignorant, comfort the sorrowful, confirm the weak, and rebuke the proud; by tongue and lively voice in these corrupt days rather than to compose books for the age to come, seeing that so much is written, and yet so little well observed, I decree to contain myself within the bounds of that vocation whereunto I found myself especially called.

No man is so regenerate, but that continually he has need of the means which Christ Jesus has appointed to be used in his kirk.

The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.

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That the Pape is not the successour of Petir, but whare he said, "Go behynd me, Sathan.

within this Realme, during the tyme of this terrible conflict that hes bene betuix the sanctes of God and these bloody wolves who clame to thame selves the titill of clargie, and to have authoritie ower the saules of men; for, with the Pollicey