"Whoever shall maintain that wrong is done to heretics and blasphemers in punishing them makes himself an accomplice in their crime."

"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than an overactive mind."

"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent."

"The decree is dreadful, I confess. Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree."

"He who has God for his father has the church for his mother."