The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.

I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.