• Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

    John Wycliffe: Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
    "Typical English Churchmen". Book by John Neville Figgis, p. 15, 1909.