Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget.

He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.

If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'.

Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in disguise.

Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.