Best 17 quotes of John Wycliffe on MyQuotes

Ability is that sufficiency which cometh from God.

All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.

I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.

I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.

Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.

The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.

There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words.

Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

The true Christian was intended by Christ to prove all things by the Word of God: all churches, all ministers, all teaching, all preaching, all doctrines, all sermons, all writings, all opinions, all practices. These are his marching orders. Prove all by the Word of God; measure all by the measure of the Bible; compare all with the standard of the Bible; weigh all in the balances of the Bible; examine all by the light of the Bible; test all in the crucible of the Bible. That which cannot abide the fire of the Bible, reject, refuse, repudiate, and cast away. This is the flag which he nailed to the mast. May it never be lowered!