You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.