John Jewel Quotes (16 Quotes)

Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.

Yet a blind man hath no pleasure in the beauty thereof, because he is blind, and cannot see it yet a dead man hath no warmth by the heat thereof, because he is dead, and feeleth it not.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

Wherefore your poor subjects' most humble petition to your highness is, that the laws touching such malefactors may be put in due execution.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

Now it followeth, that we consider how necessary and needful it is for us to be guided by the word of God, in the whole trade of our life.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

In old times we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices

For it is the word of the living and almighty God, of the God of Hosts, which hath done whatsoever pleased him both in heaven and in earth.

The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.