Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.

Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.

Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.