Animals are footprints of God.

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

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.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.