The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.