Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.

If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world.

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

If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving.

Drive them [Jews] like mad dogs from our land... let not one of them live.

Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics eases and all things seem to be at peace.