Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.

God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.

I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.

We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scripture, and read it for himself, taking God for his teacher.

There is no work better than another to please God: to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a souter [cobbler], or an apostle, all is one; to wash dishes and to preach is all one, as touching tho deed, to please God.

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.

No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.