The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

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

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it