Words matter. These are the best John Wycliffe Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Christ’s fishermen should not meddle with men’s law, for men’ s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is broken, and the fish wend out of the world.
The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them.
I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
Private confession… was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.
The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.
We are under God’s power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.
Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ’s words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.
God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy’s temptations.
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.
Men mark the passion of Christ, and print it on their heart somewhat to follow it. It was the most voluntary passion that ever was suffered, and the most painful. It was most voluntary, and so most meritorious.
Englishmen learn Christ’s law best in English. Moses heard God’s law in his own tongue; so did Christ’s apostles.
It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better.
