John Knox Quotes

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• A man with God is always in the majority.

  John Knox

  God, Men, Religion

  Quoted in Inscription on Reformation Monument, Geneva, Switzerland

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

  John Knox

  Devil, Christianity, Pulpit

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• The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

  John Knox

  Foundation, Substance, Weight

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• Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.

  John Knox

  Needs, Flesh, Christ

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• Lord, give me Scotland or I die!

  John Knox

  Scotland, Giving, Lord

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

  John Knox

  Jesus, Honor, Reign

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• Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversities, and whom we laud and praise for our benefits received. So that prayer contains the exposition of our sorrows, the desire of God's defence, and the praising of His magnificent name, as the Psalms of David clearly do teach.

  John Knox

  Prayer, Adversity, Talking

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• You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

  John Knox

  Forgiveness, Action, Influence

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• Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.

  John Knox

  Comfort, Word Of God, Slips

  "Writings of the Rev. John Knox: Minister of God's Word in Scotland".

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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.

  John Knox

  Grace, Ignite, Given

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• 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.

  John Knox

  Order, Cities, Justice

  1558 First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.

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• O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.

  John Knox

  Moving, Tongue, Speak

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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.

  John Knox

  Christian, Thinking, Favour

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• In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

  John Knox

  Age, Battle, Youth

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• As the world is weary of me so am I of it.

  John Knox

  World, Weary

  John Knox (1842). “Writings of the Rev. John Knox: Minister of God's Word in Scotland”

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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.

  John Knox

  Jesus, Heart, Men

  John Knox (1941). “The Man Christ Jesus”

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• Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

  John Knox

  Prayer, Talking, Familiar

  John Knox (1854). “The Works of John Knox”

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• As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

  John Knox

  Blow, Office, Touching

  "World Studies for Christian Schools". Book by Terri Koontz, 2000.

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• The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

  John Knox

  Monstrous

  Title of Pamphlet (1558)

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• The general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain reprobation, but that every man may elect or reprobate himself by his own free will, which he has (say they) to do good or evil ... [All these things are] forged by their own brains, and polished by the finest of their wits, when yet in very deed they are but the rotten heresies of ... Pelagius, long ago confuted by Augustine.

  John Knox

  Men, Long Ago, Evil

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• 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.

  John Knox

  Doctrine, Add, World

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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.

  John Knox

  Practice, Fruit, Study

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• How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

  John Knox

  Mistake, Men, Preacher

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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.

  John Knox

  Rebel, Sin, Threatening

  John Knox (1842). “Writings of the Rev. John Knox: Minister of God's Word in Scotland”

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• Ye [Anabaptists] 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

  John Knox

  Teacher, Jesus, Men

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