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.

Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and riches of his own faith.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

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

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.