John Knox

Without our Mediator, Forespeaker and Peacemaker, we enter not into prayer; for the incalling of such as pray without Jesus Christ is not only vain, but also they are odious and abominable before God.

How necessary is the right invocation of God's name, otherwise called perfect prayer, becomes no Christian to misknow; seeing it is the very branch which springs forth of true faith.

In our God there is strength to resist and confound multitudes, if we unfeignedly depend upon Him; and of this we have had experience heretofore.

He who, when necessity constrains, desires not support and help of God, does provoke his wrath no less than such as make false gods or openly deny God.

Nothing is more odious before God than hypocrisy and dissimulation: that is, when men do ask of God things whereof they have no need, or that they believe to obtain by others than by God alone.

So that of necessity, true repentance must needs be had, and go before perfect prayer, or sincere invocation of God's name.

For nothing more offends God, than when we ask doubting whether he will grant our petitions; for in so doing, we doubt if God be true, if he be mighty and good.

So not to call upon God in your tribulation, is like as if you did not know God, or else utterly denied him.

Therefore it is a manifest sign, that such as are always negligent in prayer do understand nothing of perfect faith; for if the fire be without heat, or the burning lamp without light, then true faith may be without ferv…

Let no man think himself unworthy to call and pray to God, because he has grievously offended his Majesty in times past; but let him bring to God a sorrowful and repenting heart.

Trouble and fear are the very spurs to prayer; for when man, compassed about with vehement calamities, and vexed with continual solicitude (having, by help of man, no hope of deliverance, with sorely oppressed and punish…

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.

Madam, in God's presence I speak: I never delighted in the weeping of any of God's creatures; yea I can scarcely well abide the tears of my own boys whom my own hand corrects, much less can I rejoice in your Majesty's we…

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 t…

None have I corrupted. None have I defrauded. Merchandise have I not made — to God's glory I write — of the glorious Evangel of Jesus Christ; but, according to the measure of the grace granted unto me, I have divided the…

And thus we utterly damn the vanity of those that affirm the sacraments to be nothing else but naked and bare signs. Nay, we assuredly believe that by baptism we are engrafted in Christ Jesus, to be made partakers of his…

That we should not pray to the glorious Virgyn Marie, butt to God only.

Here lies one who feared God so much that he never feared the face of any man.

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

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 reject…

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 co…

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…

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

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…

Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretchedinfirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I amcompelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinaterebels.

?Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

A man with God is always in the majority.

Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.