The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere - any additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Interpretation
The gospel is complete and does not need additional rules for governing Christian behavior.
In this quote, John Wycliffe emphasizes the sufficiency of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the ultimate guide for Christians. He asserts that the teachings of the Gospel are perfect and encompass all that is necessary for moral and spiritual conduct, implying that any additional rules are redundant and do not enhance the moral framework established by the Gospel.
In practice
In a sermon about faith, one might use this quote to highlight the completeness of the Gospel.
We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.
The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.
We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
It is God who gives us the spirit of worship (Psalm 133:3), and it is what we know of God that produces this spirit of worship. We might say that worship is simply theology, doctrine, what we think about God, going into top gear! Instead of merely thinking about Him, we tell Him, in prayer and praise and song, how great and glorious we believe Him to be!
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.
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