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“Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”
― John Knox

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

“‎"Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.”
― John Knox

“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, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women

“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

“The man who stands with God is always in the majority.”
― John Knox

“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

“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

“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

“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

“that where a woman reigneth and papistes beare authoritie, that there must nedes Satan be president of the counsel, p.”
― John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women

“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, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1

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

“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,”
― John Knox, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1

“That the Pape is not the successour of Petir, but whare he said, "Go behynd me, Sathan.”
― John Knox, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1

“That we should not pray to the glorious Virgyn Marie, butt to God only.”
― John Knox, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1

“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 justice, by which our sins are covered and remitted; and also, that in the supper, rightly used, Christ Jesus is so joined with us, that he becomes the very nourishment and food of our souls.”
― John Knox, The Scots Confession of Faith