'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.