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Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.

Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.

John Knox
Men, Majority, One Man

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
Law, Sin, Treason
"The Breakers of the Yoke: Sketches and Studies of the Men". Book by J. S. MacIntosh, p. 303, August 13, 2011.

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.

John Knox
Use, Common, Praise

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
Kings, Names, May
John Knox (1842). “Writings of the Rev. John Knox: Minister of God's Word in Scotland”

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

John Knox
Tyrants, People, Promise
John Knox (1831). “The history of the reformation of religion in Scotland”, p.462

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
Rebel, Sin, Threatening
John Knox (1842). “Writings of the Rev. John Knox: Minister of God's Word in Scotland”

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
Art, Views, Practice
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 208, 1895.

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