Quotes About Knox

For Knox, preaching was all about proclaiming the evangel of Jesus Christ, giving good news to a world that for too long had heard only bad news.

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I think," Philander Knox teased, "it would be better to keep your action free from any taint of legality.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

As the sole clergyman, Knox resided in a settlement known as the Bottom, sunk in the elevated crater of an extinct volcano; it could be reached only by climbing up a stony path. Knox

On October 15, Adams yielded grudgingly to the appointment of Hamilton as inspector general. Knox refused to serve under him, but Charles Cotesworth Pinckney agreed and praised Hamilton. "I knew that his talents in war were great," he told McHenry, "that he had a genius capable of forming an extensive military plan, and a spirit courageous and enterprizing, equal to the execution of it.

I think about the apocalyptic mess I've created in the trolley. "Organization happens to be one of my fortes." "Fort," he says. "What?" I say. "Apparently it's pronounced fort. Not fort-tay. One syllable, as in Knox.

To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.

Knox could not fail to see what was so patent: many books of the German reformers may have come in his way; no more was wanted than the preaching of George Wishart in 1543-45, to make him an irreconcilable foe of the doctrine as well as the discipline of his Church.

The enthusiasm which induced a priest, notary, and teacher like Knox to carry a claymore in defence of a beloved teacher, Wishart, seems more appropriate to a man of about thirty than a man of forty, and, so far, supports the opinion that, in 1545, Knox was only thirty years of age. 

As recently as 1785, he had complained to Knox that "heavy, & painful oppressions in the head, and other disagreeable sensations, often trouble me."56

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I waited alone in a cold ante-room. Aides came and went, including General Knox who bestowed on me his fish eye as he went inside.

Knox, who possessed a booming voice that could be heard throughout the camp, had never fired a cannon in his life when he became head of artillery in 1775. He was a local bookseller in Boston who was fascinated by weapons. He had read just about every book published on ordnance and convinced Washington to put him in charge of his artillery,

Earlier Vale had said, "In the words of Gandalf, the battle for Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle Earth is about to begin." Knox had understood the gist.

As this case has progressed, the evidence that the prosecution has claimed exists against me has been proven less and less and less. And all that has happened is that they've filled these holes with speculation.

He popped the trunk and pulled out from his duffel a set of NV goggles. "Good thing I didn't have my duffel in the car when we went into the water." "Yeah, good thing it was just us in the car," shot back Knox.

I grew up playing sports. But I always celebrate Veterans Day.

Events moved with breathtaking speed in May, when John Knox

Le Café was crowded, for two o'clock on a chilly afternoon, but Gurney and Pendleton, two short men in late middle age, were willing to make some space in the work routine to talk to Virgil. They agreed that they knew Knox, who had patronized Le Café because, as a gay man, he felt more comfortable there than anywhere else in town

Slippery as was Knox's land grab of the entire Waldo Patent, nepotism and patronage were common in those days.