“How can a reason which hates God be called sound?”

“The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.”

“to call a man without the Holy Spirit "upright and God-fearing" is the same as calling Belial "Christ".”

“You see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more corrupt than any Babylon or Sodom, and quite, as I believe, of a lost, desperate and hopeless impiety.”

“That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.”

“Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.”

“It is not our work, but God's gift, that we now hate ourselves and our sinful lusts and follow after love.”