The Daring Mission of William Tyndale Quotes

“In Christ God loved us, His elect and chosen, before the world began, and reserved us unto the knowledge of his Son and of His holy gospel.30”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“The only true reformation is that which emanates from the Word of God.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“By grace (that is to say, by favor) we are plucked out of Adam, the ground of all evil, and grafted in Christ, the root of all goodness.28   You are chosen for Christ’s sake to the inheritance of eternal life.29”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“Predestination … and salvation are clean taken out of our hands, and put in the hands of God only … for we are so weak and so uncertain, that if it stood in us, there would of a truth be no man saved; the devil, no doubt, would deceive us.23”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“The law and will of the devil is written as well in our hearts as in our members, and we run headlong after the devil with full zeal, and the whole swing of all the power we have; as a stone cast up into the air comes down naturally of his own self, with all the violence and swing of his own weight.15”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“In considering the spiritual state of England, Tyndale came to the sober realization that England would never be evangelized using Latin Bibles. He concluded, “It was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth, except the Scripture were laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“It was not until the late stage of his education, after eight or nine years, that he finally was allowed to study theology. However, it was only speculative theology, with priority given to Aristotle and other Greek philosophers rather the Bible. Upon reflection, Tyndale expressed his great disappointment with being shielded from the Bible and theology:”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“The Holy Scriptures, by bearing witness to the incarnation, death, and resurrection of the Son of God, create in man by the Holy Ghost a faith which justifies him.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“Even teaching the Bible unlawfully in English was considered a crime worthy of death. In 1519, seven Lollards were burned at the stake for teaching their children the Lord’s Prayer in English.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“The church in England remained shrouded in the midnight of spiritual ignorance. The knowledge of the Scriptures had been all but extinguished in the land. Although there were some twenty thousand priests in England, it was said that they could not so much as translate into English a simple clause from the Pater noster—the Lord’s Prayer.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“Tyndale courageously gave the English-speaking world a Bible they could read and understand. Perhaps no other Englishman has ever been used to affect the spiritual lives of so many people for so many centuries. William Tyndale stands as a towering figure, eminently worthy to be profiled in this series. Never have so many owed so much to so singular an effort.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“embracing these biblical teachings that magnify the sovereign grace of God in salvation. These spiritual leaders upheld the foundational truth that “salvation is of the Lord.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“First and foremost, each man possessed an unwavering faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. But more can be said about these luminous figures. Each of these stalwarts of the faith also held deep convictions in the God-exalting truths known as the doctrines of grace.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“In this fallen state, sinful man is unconscious of his desperate need for the gospel. Only the law can awaken him to the ruin of his spiritual condition.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“neither is there any more power in us to follow the will of God, than in a stone to ascend upward of his own self.]8”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“As local priests came to dine at the Walsh manor, Tyndale witnessed firsthand the appalling biblical ignorance of the Roman church. During one meal, he found himself in a heated debate with a Catholic clergyman. The priest asserted, “We had better be without God’s law than the pope’s.”15 Tyndale boldly responded, “I defy the pope and all his laws.” He then added that “if God spared him life, ere many years he would cause a boy that drives the plough to know more of the Scripture than he does.”16”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“If William Tyndale was anything, he was audacious—a man emboldened to take great risks in fulfilling his dangerous mission for God.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“There shall be in the church a fleshly seed of Abraham and a spiritual; a Cain and an Abel; an Ishmael and an Isaac; an Esau and a Jacob; as I have said, a worker and a believer; a great multitude of them that be called, and a small flock of them that be elect and chosen.31”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“These truth-seeking students gathered at a local pub on the campus of King’s College, called the White Horse Inn, to debate the ideas of Luther.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale

“The Holy Scriptures, by bearing witness to the incarnation, death, and resurrection of the Son of God, create in man by the Holy Ghost a faith which justifies him.1 —J.H. Merle d”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Daring Mission of William Tyndale