I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
– John Knox
Preaching | Fear
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
– John Knox
Leadership
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
A man with God is always in the majority.
– John Knox
God | Men
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
Heresy | Doctrine
Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.
– John Knox
Obedience
None have I corrupted, none have I defrauded; merchandise have I not made.
– John Knox
Faithful
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
Government | Obedience
It is not birth only, nor propinquity of blood, that makes a king lawfully to reign above a people professing Christ Jesus and his eternal verity; but in his election must the ordinance, which God has established in the election of inferior judges, be observed.
– John Knox
Government
I see the battle shall be great for Satan rageth even to the uttermost and I am come, (praise my God) even in the brunt of the battle.
– John Knox
Satan
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
Truth
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
Success
As the world is weary of me so am I of it.
– John Knox
Struggles