I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.

My dear pope, I will kiss your feet and acknowledge you as supreme bishop if you will worship my Christ and grant that through His death and resurrection, not through keeping your traditions, we have forgiveness of sins and life eternal.

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.