The Son of God did not want to be seen and found in heaven. Therefore he descended from heaven into this humility and came to us in our flesh, laid himself into the womb of his mother and into the manger and went on to the cross. This was the ladder that he placed on earth so that we might ascend to God on it. This is the way you must take.

Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

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.