I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

A man with God is always in the majority.

Ye [Anabaptists] be proud contemners of the free grace of God offered to man in Christ Jesus. For with the Pelagians and Papists ye are become teachers of free will, and defenders of your own righteousness

The general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain reprobation, but that every man may elect or reprobate himself by his own free will, which he has (say they) to do good or evil ... [All these things are] forged by their own brains, and polished by the finest of their wits, when yet in very deed they are but the rotten heresies of ... Pelagius, long ago confuted by Augustine.