Birth: 1494 Death: October 6, 1536
I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mot….
God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness..
Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to conde….
For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?.
To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instea….
I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope..
We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scrip….
they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to ….
For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith ….
My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in th….
Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into a….
There is no work better than another to please God: to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a souter [cobbler], or an apostle, all is one; to wash dishe….
I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, no….
Christ is with us until the world's end. Let his little flock be bold therefore..
Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren..
And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not i….
Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh h….
The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it..
We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.” To which Tyndale passionately responded: “I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares ….
The Scriptures sprang out of God..
The Law and the Gospel are two keys. The Law is the key that shutteth up all men under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key which opens the door a….