Occupation: Writer Birth: 1514 Death: November 24, 1572
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 w….
When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good..
Ye [Anabaptists] be proud contemners of the free grace of God offered to man in Christ Jesus. For with the Pelagians and Papists ye are become teache….
I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign..
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God..
I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel..
The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance..
Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death..
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….
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversit….
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit..
Lord, give me Scotland or I die!.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time..
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..
How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as 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 w….
A man with God is always in the majority..
The general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain reproba….
Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God..
O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth..
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 be….