John Wycliffe Quotes

Here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.

I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.

Within your sphere of responsibility you have as serious an obligation as do I within my sphere of responsibility. Each of us should be determined to build the kingdom of God on the earth and to further the work of righteousness.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.

You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.

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.

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.

To each among you, we have prescribed a law and a way of acting.

Here on earth, God’s work is our own.

Our duty as Clergymen is to guide people through the commandments of God. We have no power, nor any authority, to give or declare laws against the laws of God

Be ...a preacher of piety, not an exactor of tithes...

Religious institutions ought to have something to say about the normative values of society.

God's law is God's law, period. Teach your children that.

My father has been faithful to the calling that God gave him: that is, to preach the Gospel... He has presented Christ to every person that God has put before him.

From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.