John Jewel Quotes

• If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

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

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

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• 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.

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• The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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  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.

   

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Birth:	24th May, 1522
Death:	23rd September, 1571
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Priest

About

John Jewel was born in Buden, Devon, England. He was an English priest. He was Bishop of Salisbury from 1559 to 1571 and controversialist who defended Queen Elizabeth I’s religious policies opposing Roman Catholicism. The works Jewel produced during the 1560s defined and clarified points of difference between the churches of England and Rome, thus strengthening the ability of Anglicanism to survive as a permanent institution. He earned a BA degree in 1540, and an MA degree in 1545 both from Merton College, Oxford University. He wrote several books include: Apologia ecclesiae anglicanae, and The Apology of the Church of England.

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