The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

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

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.