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1 " 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
2 " Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. "
3 " A man with God is always in the majority. "
4 " "Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God. "
5 " 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. "
6 " 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
7 " The man who stands with God is always in the majority. "
8 " 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. "
9 " 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. "
10 " that where a woman reigneth and papistes beare authoritie, that there must nedes Satan be president of the counsel, p. "
11 " 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. "
12 " Here lies one who feared God so much that he never feared the face of any man. "
