The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

No great saint lived without errors.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.