Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

For it is a horrible blasphemy to imagine that there is any work by which you should presume to pacify God, since you see that there is nothing which is able to pacify Him but this inestimable price, even the death and the blood of the Son of God, one drop of which is more precious than the whole world.

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

The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.