John Wycliffe Quotes

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

There must be no inventing or recounting to the people of new things … uncanonical and according to their own taste rather than the Holy Scriptures.

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?

The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.

I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

The Constitution is man-made, so it is not perfect. It's not the basis of my beliefs. My belief system is based on the Scriptures which come from God.

The Scriptures are the truth from God.

A religion that has a personal God, outside of humanity, to worship and to please, is quite apt to get appointed an official to regulate the people, and particularly to execute punishment adequate to the offense committed against an Infinite Ruler of the universe.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

I can't change what the word of God says.

And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.

God's Word is its own best argument.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.