One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.

For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life.