What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.