Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the life and grace of the waters of salvation. It is not cleansing which men find there, but soiling; their sins are not washed away, but only added to. That being "born again" does not bring forth sons to God but to the Devil. Born of a lie, they cannot inherit the things which Truth has promised; begotten by the faithless, they are deprived of the grace of faith.

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?

Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.

As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third day after their birth, that the old law of circumcision must be taken into consideration, and that you did not think that one should be baptized and sanctified within the eighth day after his birth. In our council it seemed to us far otherwise. No one agreed to the course which you thought should be taken. Rather, we all judge that the mercy and grace of God ought to be denied to no man born