35 Best John Knox Quotes That Inspire Boldness

1. “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

2. “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.” – John Knox

3. “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

4. “The Monstrous Regiment of Women.” – John Knox

5. “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

6. “That the Pape is not the successour of Petir, but whare he said, “Go behynd me, Sathan.” – John Knox

7. “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.” – John Knox

8. “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.” – John Knox

9. “Here lies one who feared God so much that he never feared the face of any man.” – John Knox

10. “‎”Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.” – John Knox

11. “In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.” – John Knox

12. “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

13. “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.” – John Knox

14. “O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.” – John Knox

15. “Lord, give me Scotland or I die!” – John Knox

16. “As the world is weary of me so am I of it.” – John Knox

17. “I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.” – John Knox

18. “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.” – John Knox

19. “Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.” – John Knox

20. “That we should not pray to the glorious Virgyn Marie, butt to God only.” – John Knox

21. “I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.” – John Knox

22. “Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.” – John Knox

23. “The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.” – John Knox

24. “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

25. “Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.” – John Knox

26. “You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.” – John Knox

27. “A man with God is always in the majority.” – John Knox

28. “Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.” – John Knox

29. “When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.” – John Knox

30. “Let no day slip over without some comfort received of the Word of God.” – John Knox

31. “till that it pleased God of his great mercy, in the year of God 1527, to raise up his servand, Maister Patrik Hammyltoun, at whome our Hystorie doith begyn.” – John Knox

32. “Quoted in Inscription on Reformation Monument, Geneva, Switzerland” – John Knox

33. “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.” – John Knox

34. “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.” – John Knox

35. “I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.” – John Knox

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